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TOWN OF READING

ANNUAL REPORT

-FOR THE-

FINANCIAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31

1928

The Chronicle Press
Reading , Mass.

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TOWN OFFICERS 1928-1929

Elected and Appointed

Board of Selectmen

ELIAS B. CURRELL, Chairman
CHARLES S. HASTY, Secretary
CHARLES F. TREVOR

LEON G. BENT, Clerk

Term expires 1929
“ “ 1930

“ “ 1931

Board of Public Welfare

ELIAS B. CURRELL, Chairman Term expires 1929

CHARLES S. HASTY, Secretary “ “ 1930

CHARLES F. TREVOR “ “ 1931

LEON G. BENT, Clerk HELEN A. BROWN, Visitor

Board of Assessors

GEORGE E. HORROCKS, Chairman Term expires 1929

J. FRED RICHARDSON, Secretary “ “ 1931

ALVAH W. CLARK “ “ 1930

Town Clerk

MILLARD F. CHARLES

Collector of Taxes

GRACE V. VIALL

Moderator

CHARLES P. HOWARD

Treasurer

PRESTON F. NICHOLS

Town Counsel

MELVILLE F. WESTON

Town Accountant

LEON G. BENT

Board of Public Works

HARRY N. BROWN, Chairman
SAMUEL H. DAVIS, Secretary
MARTIN B. HARTSHORN
MILES C. HIGGINS
HAROLD W. PUTNAM

HARRY B. COLLINS, Supt.

Term expires 1929

“ “ 1930

“ “ 1931

“ “ 1930

“ “ 1931

Board of Health

EDWARD M. HALLIGAN, M. D., Chairman Term expires 1931
CHRISTINE F. ATKINSON, Secretary “ “ 1930

CALVERT H. PLAYDON, M. D. V. “ “ 1929

Finance Committee

§OTIS B. RUGGLES, Chairman Term expires Mar. 31, 1930

^ROBERT B. MOUNT, Chairman “ “ “ “ 1930

EDWARD W. BRIGGS “ “ “ “ 1931

DR. W. A. CONNELLY 44 “ “ “ 1931

JOHN L. DEVANEY “ “ “ “ 1931

MARGARET R. ELLISON “ “ 44 “ 1931

HARRY G. PORCH “ “ “ “ 1931

WILLIAM A. HALEY “ “ “ “ 1929

J. WARREN KILLAM “ “ “ “ 1929

ORLANDO C. MOYER “ “ “ “ 1929

EDWARD J. SCOTT “ “ “ “ 1929

MOLLIE A. SWEETSER “ “ 44 44 1929

JAMES W. FAIRCHILD 44 44 44 44 1930

HOWARD P. KNOX 44 4 4 4 4 44 1 930

W. HOMER MORRISON 44 44 “ “ 1930

LEON G. BENT, Clerk

School Committee

CARL M. SPENCER, Chairman Term expires 1930

MARION B. TEMPLE 44 “ 1930

HAROLD A. CARNES, D. M. D. 44 44 1929

MALCOLM C. DAVIS 44 44 1929

ARTHUR W. COOLIDGE 44 44 1931

JOSEPHINE L. FOWLER 44 44 1931

ADELBERT L. SAFFORD, Secretary

Superintendent of Schools School Attendance Officer

ADELBERT L. SAFFORD ABIGAIL H. MINGO

Municipal Light Board

HENRY R. JOHNSON, Chairman Term expires 1929

HERBERT G. EVANS, Secretary 44 44 1930

HARRY P. BAKER “ 44 1931

ARTHUR G. SIAS, Manager, Municipal Light Dept.

^Resigned Sept. 18, 1928.

^Elected Chairman Oct. 19, 1928.

Board of Cemetery Trustees

§GALEN A. PARKER, Chairman to Mar. 20, 1928 '

PHILIP H. TIRRELL, Chairman from Mar. 30, 1928

CLARENCE C. WHITE, Secretary

^CHESTER P. EELES

FRANK L. EDGERLEY

FRED L. NUTTER

tWINTHROP D. PARKER

fHAROLD F. DAVIS

WILLIAM P. PIERPONT, Supt.

Term expires 1929

“ 1930

“ 1929

“ 1930

“ 1931

“ 1929

^Resigned.

fElected to fill vacancy.

Board of Registrars

ROBERT S. RALSTON, Chairman Term expires 1929

WALTER S. PRENTISS “ “ 1931

OWEN McKENNEY “ “ 1930

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Clerk

Playground Commission

ARTHUR S. COOK, Chairman

MABEL H. BROWN A. GERTRUDE KILLAM

HAROLD F. PARKER HARRY E. SMITH

Planning Board

tw. FRANKLIN BURNHAM
HARRIET P. LEUCHTMAN, Secretary
WINTHROP D. PARKER
FREDERICK E. BOYERS
fElected March 16, 1928, to fill vacancy

Trustees of Public Library
ARTHUR N. MANSFIELD, Chairman
EDITH BANCROFT, Secretary
JESSE W. MORTON
RALPH S. KENEELEY
IDA C. LUCAS
♦CHARLES F. DOUGHTY
fHARRY J. BARCLAY

BERTHA L. BROWN, Librarian
GRACE J. ABBOTT, Assistant Librarian
♦Deceased.

fElected to fill vacancy.

Board of Appeal

Term expires 1929

“ 1929

“ 1931

Term expires 1930
“ “ 1930

“ “ 1931

“ “ 1929

HENRY Q. MILLETT, Chairman FRED L. NUTTER, Secretary
CHARLES A. DAMON

Commissioners of Trust Funds

PHILIP H. TIRRELL. Chairman Term expires 1929

H. RAYMOND JOHNSON “ “ 1931

CLARENCE C. WHITE “ “ 1933

Town Treasurer and Chairman of Selectmen, members ex officiis

Police Department

JEREMIAH CULLINANE, Chief
FRANCIS T. SLACK, Sergeant

TIMOTHY J. CULLINANE
OSCAR H. LOW
FRANK R. FISHER
PATRICK J. LONG
FRANCIS L. JOHNSON

WILLIAM F. O'BRIEN
HAROLD W. O’BRIEN
THOMAS E. WALL
GORDON G. MacINTIRE
JAMES H. LAWLER

Fire Department

ORVILLE O. ORDWAY, Chief

HUGH L. EAMES, Capt.
FRANK L. McKENNEY
GEORGE W. GOODRIDGE
HERBERT L. ROBERTSON

JOHN J. O'BRIEN, Capt.
CHARLES H. HESELTON
WILLIAM H. VAN HORN
ALBERT C. MAXWrELL

Superintendent of Fire Alarm and Inspector of Wires

HUGH L. EAMES

Forest Warden

ORVILLE O. ORDWAY

Deputy Forest Warden

HENRY M. DONEGAN

Constables

LEON G. BENT

JAMES W. SI AS

Sealer of Weights and Measures and Inspector of Milk

CARL M. SMITH

Inspector of Plumbing and Gas Inspector

DAVID TAGGART

Inspector of Animals

CALVERT H. PLAYDON, M. D. V.

Inspector of Slaughtering

CHARLES R. HERRICK

Inspector of Buildings

A. RUSSELL BARNES

Superintendent Moth Dept, and Tree Warden

HENRY M. DONEGAN

Burial Agent for Deceased Soldiers and Sailors

(Under Chapter 115, Section 19, General Laws)

ALFRED E. GOODWIN

Custodian of Soldiers’ Graves

(Under Chapter 115, Section 22, General Laws)

WALTER I. SWEETSER

Measurers of Wood and Bark

THOMAS E. BROGAN PERCY N. SWEETSER

BURTON K. SYMONDS WARREN M. WHITEHOUSE

Measurers of Lumber

ORA L. MILBURY BURTON K. SYMONDS

WARREN M. WHITEHOUSE WILLIAM R. ZWICKER

EDWARD B. EAMES ROLLAND L. PERRY

Weighers of Coal and Hay

W. IRVING BANCROFT
BERTHA D. MacLELLAN
WENDELL B. NEWELL
CHARLES W. LEE

THOMAS E. BROGAN
MABEL L. MacKAY
PERCY N. SWEETSER
WILLIAM H. WHITE

Field Drivers

WILLARD A. BANCROFT ADOLPH S. LARSON

ROLLAND L. PERRY

Fence Viewers

CARL B. SAWYER ALBERT E. TEMPLE

WENDELL B. NEWELL

Director of Agriculture and Home Economics

(Chapter 128, Section 41, General Laws)

ROLLAND L. PERRY

Soldiers’ Memorial Committee

ELIAS B. CURRELL, Chairman GRACE B. SHEPARDSON, Sec’y
SALLY F. BUCK LELAND W. KINGMAN

SAMUEL H. DAVIS WINTHROP D. PARKER

FRANK D. TANNER §WM. T. W. UNDERWOOD

§THOMAS WALL fDANIEL H. SHAY

§Resigned.

■^Appointed to fill vacancy.

Safety Council

LAURA S. GORDON
ALVAH W. CLARK

GLADYS S. N. FAIRCHILD
EDWARD G. QUINLAN

Committee on Revision of Zoning By-Laws

HENRY R. JOHNSON
JAMES P. BROWN

Committee on Town

ORVILLE O. ORDWAY

WILLARD P. ADDEN
Members of Planning Board.

Forests

J. FRED RICHARDSON

W. FRANKLIN BURNHAM

TOWN OF READING

Population 1925 Census : 8693.

Registered Voters 1928: Men 2339, Women 2389, Total 4728.

Fifth Congressional District.

Sixth Councillor District.

Seventh Middlesex Senatorial District.

Eighteenth Middlesex Representative District.

Representative in Congress, 5th District, Edith Nourse Rogers, Lowell.
Councillor 6th District, Harvey L. Boutwell, Malden.

Senator 7th Middlesex District, Joseph R. Cotton, Lexington.
Representatives 18th Middlesex District, Louis Ellenwood, Reading;
Wilford A. Walker, Woburn.

LIST OF JURORS FOR 1928-1929

Prepared by the Board of Selectmen

Adams, Stephen D., Merchant

118 Ash St.

Adden, Willard P., Architect

119 Woburn St.

Ainsworth, Walter C., Steamfitter

Cross St.

Bancroft, Arthur W., Clerk

55 West St.

Bancroft, Elmer P., Contractor

16 Berkeley St.

Karr, Harry C., Merchant

33 Highland St.

Beaman, Thomas W., Optometrist

48 Pearl St.

Beasley, George W., Merchant

33 Pearl St

Birchall, Joseph C, Mechanic

17 Village St.

B03 ers, Frederick E., Bookkeeper

45 Howard St.

Browne, George H„ Salesman

97 Prescott St.

Brown, Harry N„ Manager

55 Grand St.

Brown, Rodney W., Banker

89 Prospect St.

Brjrant, Forest H., Adjuster

11 Lowell St.

Burgess, Robert S., Insurance Agent

28 Pratt St.

Burnham, William F., Real Estate

9 Copeland Ave.

Carfrey, Jacob H., Salesman

256 Main St.

Carter, Francis A., Carpenter

59 Harrison St.

Carter, Percy N., Clerk

33 Chute St.

Carter, Thomas E., Foreman

25 Auburn St.

Chase, Isaac, Mechanic

116 West St.

Comey, Herbert D., Insurance

15 Washington St.

Cook, Arthur S., Insurance

59 Bancroft Ave.

Crocker, Harvey S. Salesman

50 Prescott St.

Crooker, Elmer P., Real Estate

70 Salem St.

Crosby, Joseph H., Clerk

77 Haven St.

Cushing, Charles E., Real Estate

42 Howard St.

Devaney, Martin L., Bookkeeper

59 Ash St.

Eeles, Chester P., Salesman

43 Berkeley St.

Esterberg, William L., Accountant

3 Kingston St.

Fellows, Horace W., Civil Engineer

Auburn St.

Fairclough, William T., Civil Engineer

Grove St.

Foster, Arthur J., Farmer

18 Mineral St.

Frost, Edgar, Surveyor

35 Oak St.

Frost, J. Edward, Expressman

95 Oak St.

Gascoigne, Albert P. E., Builder

34 Chute St.

Graupner, Albert C., Meat Cutter

35 Pleasant St.

Greenwood, Fred N., Salesman

4 Belmont St.

Haley, William A., Salesman

21 Hillcrest Rd.

Hartshorn, Martin B., Manager

214 High St.

Heath, Wilbur S., At Home

74 Main St.

Hilton, Walter C., Manager

127 Ash St.

Horton, Wendell B., Salesman

5 Dudley St.

Howard, John B., Salesman

15 Oak St.

Hunt, Herbert W., Manufacturer

30 Hillcrest Rd.

Ingalls, George J., Clerk

253 Pearl St.

Johnson, Henry R., Merchant

193 Main St.

Killam, Joseph W., Civil Engineer

16 Arlington St.

Kimball, Arthur R., Manufacturer

40 Chute St.

Knox, Howard P., Merchant

35 Walnut St.

Larrabee, George E., Salesman

394 Main St.

Littlefield, Ray E., Manufacturer

16 Mt. Vernon St.

MacAllister, William J., Plumber

100 Howard St.

Macdonald, Alexander F., Bookkeeper

16 Locust St.

Martin, George E., Manager

100 Haven St.

McCaugh}', Joseph, Foreman

11 Elliott St.

McKay, Herbert L., At Home

51 Spring St.

McLellan, Harry R., Salesman

63 Woburn St.

Mecham, Mark, Bookkeeper

19 Arlington St.

Merritt, Robert M., Salesman

1 Dudley St.

Morrison, William H., Solicitor

29 Pleasant St.

Murphy, Howard J., Manufacturer

255 Main St.

Mussells, George A„ Accountant

38 Bancroft Ave.

Noyes, Herman M., Buyer

57 Howard St.

Nutting, Frank H., Salesman

31 Hillcrest Rd.

Nutter, Fred L., Agent

41 Linden St.

Owen, John W., Civil Engineer

155 Main St.

Parker, J. Scott, Expressman

77 Woburn St.

Parker, Percival, Salesman

64 Washington St.

Parker, Winthrop D., Architect

1 Charles St.

Perkins, Thomas, Superintendent

29 Woburn St.

Platts, Clifton M., Auditor

44 Prospect St.

Pomfret, George H., Bookkeeper

13 Winter St.

Prentiss, Harley L., Bookkeeper

11 Fremont St.

Ralston, Robert S., Compositor

1A Dudley St.

Richards, Frederick E., Salesman

49 Prescott St.

Richardson, Charles W., Clerk

107 Haven St.

Richardson, J. Fred, Merchant

17 Prospect St.

Roberts, Arthur E., Treasurer

128 Summer Ave.

Robinson, Joseph E., Insurance

60 Lowell St.

Ruggles, Walter C., Manufacturer

10 Fremont St.

Scott, Edward J., Treasurer

8 Fremont St.

Smith, Carl M., Druggist

10 Linden St.

Southwick, Leon L., Salesman

131 Ash St.

Spavin, Edward M., Salesman

Wells Rd.

Spencer, Carl M., President

21 Pratt St.

Stembridge, Alfred R., Salesman

56 Mineral St.

Stevens, Frank M., Special Agent

4 School St.

Stimpson, George H., Voicer

7 Kingston St.

Sw’eetser, Percy N., Merchant

110 Woburn St.

Torrey, Howard, At Home

159 Summer Ave.

Tucker, Frank E., Clerk

22 Avon St.

Underwood, William T., Salesman

97 Woburn St.

Van Buskirk, Joseph B., Real Estate

40 Hanscom. Ave.

Ward, Frank E., Bookkeeper

21 King St.

Wells, Charles D., Blacksmith

55 Prescott St.

Whitchurch, Ruel L., Farmer

279 Franklin St.

Willson, William H., Manager

167 Woburn St.

Wilson, W. Fred, Salesman

24 Arlington St.

Winslow, Warren L-, Insurance

65 Mineral St.

Worthen, Arthur B., Salesman
Reading, Mass., June 29, 1928. Approved:

51 Grand St.

ELIAS B.

CURRELL,

CHARLES

S. HASTY,

CHARLES F. TREVOR

Selectmen of Reading.

TOWN MEETINGS, 1928

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

Security Hall, Woburn St., March 5, 1928.

Pursuant to the warrant and the Constable’s return thereon, a
town meeting was held at the time and place specified therein and
was called to order by the Moderator, Charles P. Howard. The
warrant was partially read when it was voted to dispense with further
reading of the warrant except the Constable’s return. The Con-
stable’s return was then read.

Article 1. To bring in their votes on one ballot for Moderator ;
one member of the Board of Selectmen for three years ; Treasurer ;
Collector of Taxes ; one member of the Board of Assessors for three
years ; Town Clerk ; two members of the Board of Public Works for
three years ; Tree Warden ; one member of the Board of Health for
three years; one member of the Board of Public Welfare for three
years ; two members of the School Committee for three years ; two
trustees of the Public Library for three years ; one member of the
Municipal Light Board for three years; two members of the Board
of Cemetery Trustees for three years ; two Constables ; three members
of the Planning Board, two members for three years, and one mem-
ber for two years.

Moderator, One Year

Charles P. Howard, 122 Summer Ave 1111

Blanks 248

Town Clerk, One Year

Millard F. Charles, 66 Bancroft Ave 1211

Blanks • • 148

Selectmen, Three Years

George W. Davis, Ordway Terrace 507

Charles F. Trevor, 21 Lowell St 818

Blanks 34

Board of Public Welfare, Three Years

George W. Davis, Ordway Terrace 519

Charles F. Trevor, 21 Lowell St 792

Blanks 48

Assessor, Three Years

J. Fred Richardson, 17 Prospect St 1118

Blanks 241

Treasurer, One Year

Preston F. Nichols, 56 Linden St 1168

Blanks • • 191

Tax Collector, One Year

Grace V. Viall, 42 Bancroft Ave 1186

Blanks • • 173

Board of Public Works, Three Years

Martin B. Hartshorn, 214 High St 1095

Harold W. Putnam, 117 Bancroft Ave 1178

Blanks 445

Constables, One Year

Leon G. Bent, 215 Main St 1094

James Winthrop Sias, 5 Salem St 1058

Blanks 566

Tree Warden, One Year

Henry M. Donegan, 15 Federal St 1196

Blanks . . 163

Municipal Light Board, Three Years

Harry P. Baker, 38 Prescott St 1113

Blanks 249

School Committee, Three Years

Josephine L. Fowler, 65 Temple St 1089

Arthur W. Coolidge, 45 Middlesex Ave 1087

Blanks 542

Board of Health, Three Years

Edward M. Halligan, 3 Salem St 1145

Blanks 214

Trustees Public Library, Three Years

Ralph W. Keneeley, 86 Salem St 1065

Jesse W. Morton, 114 Woburn St 1125

Blanks 528

Cemetery Trustees, Three Years

Frank L. Edgerley, 203 Main St 1122

Fred L. Nutter, 41 Linden St 1102

Blanks 494

Planning Board, Three Years

Frederick E. Boyers, 45 Howard St 750

W. Franklin Burnham, 35 Copeland Ave 614

Winthrop D. Parker, 1 Charles St 850

Blanks 505

Planning Board, Two Years

Winthrop D. Parker, 1 Charles St 51

Frederick E. Boyers, 45 Howard St 49

W. Franklin Burnham, 35 Copeland Ave 27

Daniel J. O’Neil, 6 Ash St 20

Blanks and Scattering 1212

The votes were counted and declared in open town meeting
and the ballots sealed and delivered to the Town Clerk, whereupon it
was voted to adjourn.

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.

ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

Security Hall, Woburn St., March 12, 1928.

Pursuant to the warrant and the Constable’s return thereon, a
town meeting was held at the time and place therein specified in the
last part of Article 1 and was called to order by the Moderator,
Charles P. Howard. The warrant was partially read when it was
voted to dispense with further reading except the Constable’s return,
which was duly read and the meeting opened.

Article 2. To hear and act on the reports of the Board of
Selectmen ; Town Accountant ; Treasurer ; Collector of Taxes ; Board
of Assessors; Board of Public Works; Town Clerk; Tree Warden;
Board of Health; Board of Public Welfare; School Committee; Public
Library Trustees; Municipal Light Board; Board of Cemetery Trus-
tees ; Finance Committee ; Planning Board and Special Committees.

Article 2. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted to lay
this article on the table.

Article 3. To choose all other necessary town officers and de-
termine what instructions shall be given town officers and special
committees.

Article 3. Voted that the following, on motion of Elias B.
Currell, be chosen to serve as Measurers of Lumber for the ensuing
year : Ora L. Milbury, Edwrard B. Eames, Burton K. Symonds, William
B. Zwicker, Warren M. Whitehouse, Rolland L. Perry ; and the fol-
lowing as Measurers of Wood and Bark: Percy N. Sweetser, Burton
K. Symonds, Thomas E. Brogan and Warren M. Whitehouse.

Article 4. To determine how much money the Town will raise
and appropriate for General Government, Protection of Persons and
Property, Health and Sanitation, Highways, Charities, Soldiers’ Bene-
fits, Schools, Public Library, Recreation, Cemetery Department, Memo-
rial Day Observance, Municipal Light Department, Water Department,
Maturing Debt, Interest, Insurance, and General Accounts.

Article 4. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that
$21,710.00 be raised and appropriated for General Government as
follows :

Selectmen’s Expenses $ 300.00

Selectmen’s Clerical 1310.00

Town Accountant’s Salary 2.000.00

Treasurer’s Salary 1,200.00

Treasurer’s Expenses 500.00

Collector’s Salary 2,000.00

Collector’s Expenses 1,000.00

Collector’s Clerical 200.00

Assessors’ Salaries 1,800.00

Assessors’ Expenses 1,100.00

Assessors’ Clerical 2,200.00

Block System Survey 100.00

Town Counsel’s Salary 500.00

Town Counsel’s Expenses 100.00

Town Clerk’s Salary 350.00

Town Clerk’s Expenses 600.00

Board of Public Works, Salaries of Officers and Expenses 5,200.00

Registrars of Voters Salaries 250.00

Election and Registration Expenses 1,000.00

It was moved by George E. Horrocks that the above motion be
amended to raise and appropriate for Assessors’ Expenses, $1,300.00
instead of $1,100.00 and for Block System Survey, $500.00 instead of
$100.00. The motion to amend was not carried.

Article 4. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that
$94,475.0Q be raised and appropriated for General Accounts as follow's :

Miscellaneous Expenses $ 2,500.00

Municipal Building Maintenance 2,800.00

Fire Station Maintenance and Repairs 1,000.00

Victory House Lighting 150.00

G. A. R. Rooms Lighting 25.00

Insurance 5,000.00

Interest 27,000.00

Maturing Debt 56,000.00

$ 94,475.00

and that $15,000.00 of the above amount be appropriated
from Excess and Deficiency Account and transferred for
the payment of maturing debt.

$ 79,475.00

Article 4. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that
$61,453.15 be raised and appropriated for Protection of Persons and
Property as follows :

Police Dept. Maintenance $ 2,300.00

Police Dept. Salaries 25,361.00

Police Dept. Special Officers 300.00

Fire Dept. Maintenance 2,300.00

Fire Dept. Salaries 17,375.15

Fire Dept. Call Men Salaries 3,367.00

Fire Alarm Maintenance and Extension 800.00

Moth Dept. Maintenance 6,000.00

Tree Warden Maintenance 2,000.00

Forest Warden Maintenance 500.00

Inspector of Buildings Salary 500.00

Inspector of Wires Salary 100.00

Sealer of Weights and Measures Salary 400.00

Sealer of Weights and Measures Expenses 150.00

$ 61,453.15

Article 4. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that
$6,300.00 be raised and appropriated for Health and Sanitation as
follows :

Board of Health Salaries $ 300.00

Board of Health Expenses 600.00

Inspector of Plumbing, Salary 800.00

Inspector of Animals, Salary 200.00

Inspector of Milk, Salary 100.00

Care of Contagious Diseases 2,000.00

Garbage Collection 2,300.00

$ 6,300.00

Article 4. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that
$15,252.00 be raised and appropriated for Charities and Aid as follows:

Board of Public Welfare

Visitor’s Salary $ 400.00

Clerical Salary 352.00

Aid, Board and Care 8,000.00

Mothers’ Aid 4,000.00

Temporary Aid 2,500.00

$ 15,252.00

Article 4. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that
$5,000.00 be raised and appropriated for Soldiers’ Benefits as follows :

State Aid $ 300.00

Military Aid 700.00

Soldiers’ Relief '4,000.00

$ 5,000.00

Article 4. On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted that the
Town raise and appropriate for :

Hydrant Rentals $ 7,875.00

Drinking Fountains 100.00

$ 7,975.00

and the above-mentioned sums, together with the Water Dept, receipts,
estimated at $50,220.00, and the balance on hand, Jan. 1. 1928, $4,432.93,
be appropriated for payment of water bonds, interest on water bonds,
maintenance of water works and main and service pipes, and that
$282.00, premium on water bonds sold in 1927 be applied to payment
of w’ater bonds due in 1928.

Article 4. On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted that the
sum of $45,000.00 be raised and appropriated for construction, main-
tenance and repairs of highways, the purchase of materials, tools and
appliances, and for the payment of any other incidental expenses per-
taining thereto. S 45,000.00

Article 4. On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted that
the sum of $5,000.00 be raised and appropriated for sidewalk con-
struction.

Article 4. On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted that the
sum of $10,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the

Removal of Snow and Ice $ 5.000.00

Maintenance of Storm Drains 3,000.00

Care of Common, Parks and Supervised Play 2,000.00

$ 10,000.00

Article 4. On motion of Henry R. Johnson, it was voted that
there be included in the tax levy for electricity used for street
lights the sum of $13,500.00, and that said sum and the income
from sales of electricity to private consumers, other municipalities and
to Municipal Buildings, and jobbing sales during the current fiscal
year, be appropriated for the municipal lighting plant, the whole to
be expended by the Manager of municipal lighting under the
direction and control of the Municipal Light Board for the expense
of the plant for said fiscal year, as defined in Section 57 of Chapter
164 of the General Laws and that, if there should be any unexpended

balance thereof at the end of said fiscal year, such balance shall be
transferred to the construction fund of said plant and appropriated
and used for such additions thereto as may be authorized by the
Municipal Light Board during the next fiscal year, and said Board
is further authorized to transfer from the operation fund to the con-
struction fund an amount not exceeding $15,000.00 to be expended for
new construction during 1928.

Article 4. On motion of Carl M. Spencer, it was voted that the
sum of $223,187.50 be raised and appropriated for School Expenses,

divided as follows :

General Maintenance $ 49,650.00

General Salaries 169,500.00

Agricultural Maintenance 500.00

Agricultural Salaries 2,737.50

Industrial Tuition 800.00

$223,187.50

Article 4. On motion of Arthur N. Mansfield, it was voted that
the Town raise and appropriate $7,430.00' for the support of the Public

Library, as follows :

Library Maintenance $ 3,200.00

Library Salaries 4,230.00

$ 7,430.00

Article 4. On motion of Philip H. Tirrell, it was voted that
$9,650.00 be raised and appropriated for Cemeteries ; $8,900.00 to be
expended for maintenance of Laurel Hill Cemetery and $750.00 for
development of Forest Glen Cemetery. $ 9,650.00

Article 4. On motion of Leon G. Bent, it was voted that $500.00
be raised and appropriated for Memorial Day Observance to be
expended under the direction of Reading Post No. 62, American Legion.

$ 500.00

Article 5. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the
sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) for the Reserve Fund as
provided by Section 6, Chapter 40’, General Laws, or whafi it will do
in relation thereto. Town Accountant.

Article 5. On motion of Leon G. Bent, it was voted that $2,000.00’
be appropriated from Overlay Reserve and $3,000.00 from Excess and’
Deficiency Account for the Reserve Fund in accordance with Section
6, Chapter 40, General Laws and that the Town Accountant be and
he hereby is authorized to transfer said amount for the purpose.

Article 6. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the
sum of three thousand three hundred and seventy-four dollars and
sixty -seven cents ($3,374.67) to balance overdrafts in the following
accounts: Police Department, Special Officers, $1,374.32; Temporary
Aid. $450.87 ; Soldiers’ Relief $1,549.48 ; or what it will do in relation
thereto. Town Accountant.

Article 6. On motion of Leon G. Bent, it was voted that $3,374.67
be appropriated from Excess and Deficiency Account to balance over-
drafts in the following accounts :

Police Department, Special Officers $ 1,374.32.

Temporary Aid 450.87

Soldiers’ Relief 1,549.48

and the Town Accountant is hereby instructed to make the transfers.

Article 7. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with
the approval of the Selectmen, to borrow money from time to time in
anticipation of revenue of the financial year beginning Januar3' 1, 1928,
and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, any
debt or debts incurred under this vote to be paid from the revenue
of said financial year. Town Treasurer.

Article 7. On motion of Preston F. Nichols, it was voted that
the Treasurer be authorized, with the approval of the Selectmen, to
borrow money from time to time in anticipation of revenue of the
financial year beginning, Jan. 1, 1928, and to issue a note or notes
therefor, payable within one year, any debt or debts incurred under
this vote to be paid from the. revenue of said financial year.

Article 8. To see if the Town will authorize the Treasurer, with
the approval of the Selectmen, to renew or refund any notes issued in
anticipation of revenue for a period of less than one year, in accord-
ance with the provisions of Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws, or
what it will do in relation thereto. Town Treasurer.

Article 8. On motion of Preston F. Nichols, it was voted that
the Treasurer be authorized, with the approval of the Selectmen, to
renew or refund any notes issued in anticipation of revenue for a
period of less than one year, in accordance with the provisions of
Section 17, Chapter 44, General Law’s.

Article 9. To see if the Towrn will raise and appropriate the
sum of three hundred and sixty dollars ($360.00) for the purpose of
providing suitable quarters for Veteran Post No. 194, G. A. R., in
accordance wTith the provisions of Section 5, Chapter 40, General Law’s,
or what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen.

Article 9. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that
$360.00 be raised and appropriated for the purpose of providing suit-
able quarters for Veteran Post No. 194, G. A.. R. in accordance with
the provisions of Section 5, Chapter 40, General Laws.

Article 10. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the
sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for the care of graves of any
persons who have served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of*the
United States, in time of war or insurrection, and who have been
honorably discharged from such service, as provided by Section 22,
Chapter 115, General Laws, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Board of Selectmen.

Article 10. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that
$500.00 be raised and appropriated for the care of graves of any persons
who have served in the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps of the United
States, in time of war or insurrection and who have been honorably
discharged from such service as provided by Section 22, Chapter 115,
General Laws. $500.00

Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to indemnify the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for land,
grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or resulting
from the laying out, alteration, construction or reconstruction of that
part of the State Highway known as Dead Man’s Curve, or any
section or relocation thereof, and will authorize the Board of Select-
men to sign an indemnity agreement thereof in behalf of the Town,
and to see if the Town will raise and appropriate the sum of two
hundred dollars ($200.00) for the payment of said damages, or what
it will do in relation thereto. Board of Selectmen.

Article 11. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that the
subject matter of Aricle 11 be referred to the Board of Public Works.

Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to erect a fence on
the westerly side of the Boston & Maine Railroad from W. Bancroft
& Co.’s property northerly about 500 ft., and on the easterly side from
the Mineral Street Bridge southerly about 500 ft., and how much
money it will raise and appropriate herefor, or what it will do in
relation thereto. Board of Selectmen.

Article 12. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted that the
sum of $2,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the construction of a
fence on the westerly side of the Boston & Maine Railroad from W.
Bancroft & Co.’s property northerly about 500 ft. and on the easterly
side from the Mineral Street Bridge southerly about 500 ft.

The motion was not voted.

Article 13. To see if the Town will appropriate the sum of
$5,299.22, being the unexpended balance of the amount raised by bond
issue for water mains extension in specified streets, for further exten-
sion of main pipes of 6 inches in diameter or over, or what it will do
in relation thereto. Board of Public Works.

Article 13. On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted that
the •sum of $5,299.22, being the unexpended balance of the amount
raised by bond issue for wTater main extensions in specified streets,
be appropriated for further extension of main pipes of six inches in
diameter or over.

Article 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate by
borrowing or otherwise, the sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00 )
for the development of storm water drainage, or -what it will do in
relation thereto. Board of Public Works.

Article 14. On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted that
the sum of $10,000.00 be raised and appropriated for the development
of storm water drainage. $10,000.00

Article 15. To see if the Town will vote to repair the bridge
over the Boston & Maine Railroad at Mineral Street, and how much
money it will raise and appropriate therefor, or what it will do in
relation thereto. Board of Public Works.

Article 15. On motion of Otis B. Ruggles, it was voted to
raise and appropriate $9,000.00 for the purpose of repairing the bridge
over the Boston & Maine Railroad at Mineral Street, the same to be
expended under the direction of the Board of Public Works.

Article 16. To see if the Town will vote to construct a new
bridge of reinforced concrete and steel over the Boston & Maine
Railroad at Mineral Street, and to see how much money it will raise
by borrowing or otherwise, and appropriate therefor, or what it will
do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works.

Article 16. The motion of Harry N. Brown to build a bridge
at Mineral Street over the Boston & Maine Railroad to cost $45,000
was not carried.

Article 17. To see if the Town wfill vote to accept the report
of the Board of Public Works, upon the laying out as a public highway
of private way heretofore known as Gilmore Avenue, such highway
being laid out in accordance wfith plans duly approved by the Board
of Survey and filed in the office of the Town Clerk, in accordance with
the statutory requirements, and to see if the Town will accept the
public highway laid out by the Board of Public Works and heretofore
known as Gilmore Avenue, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Board of Public Works.

Article 17. Report of the Board of Public Works on the lay
ing out of Gilmore Avenue.

We, the subscribers, Board of Public Works of Reading, aftei
giving due notice to all parties interested, have laid out for the Towi
as a public way described as follows :

Gilmore Avenue, being a certain street or court in the Town

of Reading, running southerly from Woburn Street through land of
Gladys E. Steele and being bounded and described as follows :

The westerly line of said Gilmore Avenue commences at a point
on the southerly side line of said Woburn Street, said point being N. 62
degrees 36’ and 30” E. a distance of 210.95 feet from a stone bound
set at the end of a short curve of 40.41 feet radius connecting said
Woburn Street with West Street. From thence the said westerly
line runs to the right with a radius of 10.00 feet a length of 17.25
feet to a point of tangent ; thence S. 18 degrees 32’ and 20” E. a dis*
tance of 166.82 feet to a point of curve. Thence with a curve to t fre
left with a radius of 30.00 feet a length of 117.60 feet to a point of
reverse curve Thence with a curve to the right with a radius oi
42.30 feet a length of 26.02 feet to a point of tangent which is fort}
feet opposite at right angles with the end of the second course as
above described. Thence with a curve to the right with a radius
of 10.00 feet a length of 14.16 feet to a point of tangent on the
southerly side of Woburn Street and at the end of this layout. The
last point above described being a distance of 60.72 feet from the firsl
vK)int as above described and on a bearing of N. 62 degrees 36’ and 30’
E. therefrom.

The above described lines being more fully shown on a plan
entitled, “Gilmore Avenue, Reading, Mass., owned and developed by
Gladys E. Steele,” made under date of September, 1927 by Davis &
Abbott, Civil Engineers, Reading, Mass., said plan being a part of
this description.

We recommend that when this report is accepted and adopted
by the Town that said way shall thereafter be known as a public
town way and named, “Gilmore Avenue.”

On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted to accept and adopt
the report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out of said
Gilmore Avenue.

Article 18. To see if t\ie Town will accept the report of the
Board of Public Works, establishing a building line on the westerly
side of Main Street, in Reading, said line beginning at a point on the
northerly line of Haven Street, thirty-three (33.00) feet southwest
of the intersection of the northerly line of Haven Street, with the
westerly line of Main Street, thence running due north for a distance
ui two hundred thirty-nine and sixty-four one hundredths (239.64)
feet, on the property of the Masonic Temple Corp., Arthur D. Gordon,
Thos. J. Finnegan and Louis J. Baccigalupo, thence by a curve to the
left having a radius of two hundred fifty and fifteen hundreths (250.15)
feet for ^ distance of eighty-two and fifty-two one hundredths (82.52)
feet on the property of Louis J. Baccigalupo, to the intersection w-itl*
the westerly line of Main Street, and providing that structures exist*
ing at the time of the establishment of said building line, though

between the same and said Main Street, shall be permitted to remain
as the same then exist and to be maintained, including the making
of ordinary and current repairs, but not to be substantially recon-
structed, altered, enlarged or extended, and to see if the Town will
raise and appropriate the sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). for
the expense of said building line and for the payment of any dam-
ages in connection therewith, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Board of Public Works.

Article IS. On motion of W. Franklin Burnham, it was voted
to lay this Article oii the table.

Article 19. To see if the Town will authorize the Board of
Selectmen to sell the Hose House on Hopkins Street in order that the
lot upon which it stands may be added to the school-yard of the
Chestnut Hill School, or what it will do in relation thereto.

School Committee.

Article 19. On motion of Carl M. Spencer, it was voted to
authorize the Board of Selectmen to dispose of the Hose House on
Hopkins Street in order that the lot upon which it stands may be
added to the school yard of the Chestnut Hill School.

Article 20. To see what action the Town will take regarding
the installation of additional street lights in the public streets during
1928. Municipal Light Board.

Article 20. On motion of Henry R. Johnson, it was voted that
the subject matter of Article 20 be referred to the Municipal Light
Board with authority to install such additional street lights as in its
judgment are necessary, and to make such changes in existing lights
as may be advisable, the cost of same to be paid from the deprecia-
tion fund.

Article 21. To see if the Town w’ill vote to authorize the
Municipal Light Board to secure, by lease or otherwise, newT quarters
for offices and salesrooms. Municipal Light Board.

Article 21. On motion of Henry R. Johnson, it was voted that
the Municipal Light Board be and it is hereby authorized to procure
new and suitable quarters for its offices, salesrooms and other uses of
a similar nature connected with the conduct of its business ; and for
that purpose to enter into, in the name and behalf of the Town, and
execute such agreement, leases and other undertakings upon such
terms and conditions as in the opinion of said Board may be necessary,
the rental for said quarters to be paid from the income of the Muni-
cipal Lighting Plant.

Article 11. On motion of Otis B. Ruggles, it was voted to
reconsider action taken on Article 11.

Article 11. On motion of Otis B. Ruggles, it was voted to
raise and appropriate the sum of $200.00 to pay for land damage in
widening Main Street, at Dead Man’s Curve, so-called, and authorize
the Board of Selectmen to sign an indemnity agreement to indemnify
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts against any and all claims for
land, grade and drainage damages which may be caused by or
resulting from the laying out, alteration, construction or reconstruc-
tion of that part of the State Highway known as Dead Man’s Curve
or any section or relocation thereof. $200.00

Article 22. To see if the Town will vote to provide a site for
and erect a permanent World War Memorial and appropriate the sum
of four thousand and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-two cents ($4,069.82),
the amount received from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1924
from surplus war bonus funds, or wThat it will do in relation thereto.

William T. W. Underwood and others.

Article 22. On motion of Samuel H. Davis, it was voted that
the Town appropriate the sum of $4,069.82, being the amount received
from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by virtue of Chapter 480
of the Acts of 1924, for a permanent War Memorial and that a com-
mittee of nine be appointed by the Moderator and such committee
be and they hereby are authorized, empowered and instructed to
expend the said sum of $4,069.82 for a permanent World War Memo-
rial and to select a suitable site within the Town of Reading and
cause suchi Memorial to be erected thereon.

Committee appointed :

Elias B. Currell, Chairman Frank Tanner

Mrs. Sally Buck Mrs. Grace B. Shepardson

Samuel H. Davis William T. W. Underwood

Leland W. Kingman Thomas Wall

Winthrop D. Parker

Article 23. To see if the Town will vote to instruct the Board
of Cemetery Trustees to provide a suitable plot of ground in Forest
Glen Cemetery for the use of Reading Post 62 of the American Legion,
or what it will do in relation thereto.

William T. W. Underwood and others.

Article 23. On motion of William T. W. Underwood, it was voted
that the Board of Cemetery Trustees be and they are hereby author-
ized, empowered and instructed to provide a suitable plot of ground
in Forest Glen Cemetery for the #use of Reading Post 62, American
Legion.

Article 24. To see if the Town will vote to raise by borrowing
or otherwise and appropriate the sum of fourteen thousand nine
hundred dollars ($14,900.00), for the purpose of constructing an under-
pass (foot passage) and an inter-track fence at the Reading Railroad

Station, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Reading Safety Council.

Article 24. Laura S. Gordon made the following motion :

That for the purpose of constructing an underpass for foot
passage under the tracks of the Boston & Maine R. R. at or near
the railroad station, such underpass for foot passage to be a con-
nection of the present sidewalk on the southerly side of Haven
Street with Lincoln Street and also for the construction of an inter-
track fence and other construction and alterations at an additional
cost of not exceeding $5,400.00, there be raised and appropriated the
sum of $14,900.00; $9,900.00 of which shall be raised in the tax levy
of the current year, and the Treasurer with the approval of the
Selectmen, be and hereby is authorized to borrow the sum of $5,000.00
and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, said bonds or notes
to be payable in accordance with the provisions of Sec. 19, Chapter 44,
General Laws, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not less than
five years from the date of issue of the first bond or note or at such
earlier dates as the Treasurer and Selectmen may determine.

On motion of Otis B. Ruggles, this Article was laid on the table.

It was voted to adjourn to meet in Security Hall on Tuesday,
March 20, 1928 at 7.45 o’clock P. M.

The following checkers reported that the total voters admitted
to the Town Meeting was 683.

George L. Pratt Katherine E. Murray

James A. Waters Jessie N. Thaxter

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.

ADJOURNED ANNUAL TOWN MEETING

Security Hall, Woburn St., March 20, 1928.

Pursuant to adjournment, a Town Meeting was held and was
called to order by the Moderator, Charles P. Howard.

Article 25. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the sale
to the First Congregational Church of Reading, of approximately
2,993 sq. ft. of land, being a part of the rear portion of the Richard-
son Lot, so-called, on Lowell Street, adjacent to the Municipal Build-
ing, or what it will do in relation thereto.

George A. Taber and others.

Article 25. On motion of George A. Taber, it was voted that
the Board of Selectmen hereby is authorized to sell to the First
Congregational Church of Reading the certain piece of land herein-

after described at the price of twenty-five cents per square foot, said
land being described as follows :

Commencing at a stone bound located 189.43 feet from Woburn
Street at the northeast corner of the property of the First Congrega-
tional Church of Reading, thence running along the north boundary
of said Church property on, bearing north 77 degrees 49’ and 30” W.
a distance of 63.25 feet. Thence turning and running along boundary
line of said church property on, bearing N. 14 degrees 27’ and 30” E. a
distance of 65 feet to a spike in the ground at the southern corner of
the property of the Christian Science Church, thence turning and
running on, bearing S. 48 degrees 44’ and 40’ E. a distance of 68.77
feet, thence turning and running on, bearing S. 11 degrees 9’ W. a
distance of 31.54 feet to the point of beginning, said parcel containing
2993 sq. ft. of land, the same being shown on a plan of Davis
and Abbott, Civil Engineers, entitled, “Plan of land owned by the
Town of Reading showing proposed transfer of lot to the Congrega-
tional Church Society” and dated, May, 1927.

And that the Board of Selectmen be and hereby is authorized
to give a deed in the name of the Town conveying said land to the
First Congregational Church of Reading.

Article 24. On motion of Laura S. Gordon, it was voted to
take this article from the table.

A substitute motion was made by Laura S. Gordon which was
not voted, the vote being “Yes,” 166, “No,” 237.

Article 15. On motion of George E. Horrocks, it was voted to
reconsider action taken on this article.

On motion of George E. Horrocks, it was voted to raise and
appropriate nine thousand dollars, ($9,000.00) to rebuild the bridge
over the railroad at Mineral Street.

Article 26. To see if the Town will vote to release George P.
Abbott from the guarantee to the Town of 4% income on the cost
of the extension of water main to his property on West Street and
Cottage Park, or what it will do in relation thereto.

George P. Abbott and others.

Article 26. On motion of George P. Abbott, it was voted to release
George P. Abbott from the guarantee to the Town of 4% income
on the cost of the extension of water main to his property on West
Street and Cottage Park.

Article 27. To see if the Town will vote to amend its Zoning
By-Law, whether by the establishment of new zones, or by altering
the restrictions with respect to existing zones, or* both, so as to permit
the erection of Apartment Houses in suitable districts outside of the
existing business zones, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Leone F. Quimby and others;

Article 27. Leone F. Quimby moved that the Zoning By-Law
and map be and the same hereby are amended as follows : By
striking out in Part 1, Section 1 thereof the word “five” and inserting
in place thereof the word, “six by inserting in said Part 1, Section
1 after subsection 2 thereof the following new sub-Section 2-A :

Apartment House Districts, (indicated by letter “A” upon said
map and to be deemed a residence district for the purposes of other
provisions of this By-Law’) ; by inserting in Part 2 thereof after
Section V the following new section.

Section V, “(a)” Apartment House Districts, ‘A’.

1 — Any use permitted in a multiple residence district,

2 — Apartment houses constructed in accordance with- law7,

3 — Accessory uses customary with the foregoing uses incidental thereto

and located upon the same lot and as further defihed in Section V-e
above ; and by removing from the districts in wThich they have here-
tofore been placed and bringing in to the Apartment House Districts
“A” the territory bounded as follows : Beginning on Low7ell Street

at the corner of Sanborn Street running thence along Lowell Street
to Linden Street, thence turning and running on the easterly side of
Linden Street for a distance of 150 feet from the said intersection of
Lowell and Linden Streets, thence turning and running and following
the nearest existing lot line in an easterly direction to a point 125
feet distant from Lowell Street and 125 feet distant therefrom to an
intersection w7ith Sanborn Street, thence turning and following the
line of Sanborn Street to the point of beginning, also the following
territory viz : so much of the land lying on either side of Woburn
Street and east of the Boston & Maine Railroad crossing as has here-
tofore been included in the Multiple Residence District “M” to a depth
of 150 feet on each side of Woburn Street.

On motion of Melville F. Weston, it w7as voted to refer the
subject matter of this motion to the Planning Board.

Article 18. On motion of Arthur G. Bancroft, it was voted to
take this Article from the table.

On motion of Arthur G. Bancroft, it was voted to indefinitely
postpone the subject matter of this Article.

Article 28. To see if the Towm will adopt the following By-Law,
or what it will do in relation thereto :

Article 10, Section 5a : No person or persons shall sell or offer
for sale any toy balloons, whistles or other annoying or noisemaking
toys or appliances on Memorial Day.

Louis F. Ellenwood and others.

Article 28. On motion of Louis Ellenwood, it was voted to
adopt the following By-Laws as follows :

Article 10, Section 5a. No person or persons shall sell or offer
for sale any toy balloons, whistles or other annoying or noisemaking
toys or appliances on Memorial Day.

Article 29. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the
sum of three hundred dollars ($300.00) for Child Welfare Work, to
be expended under the direction of the Reading Visiting Nurse Associa-
tion and the Board of Health, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Elizabeth H. Brown and others.

Article 29. On motion of Elizabeth H. Brown, it was voted to
raise and appropriate the sum of $300.00 for Child Welfare Work, to
be expended under the direction of The Reading Visiting Nurse Associ-
ation and the Board of Health.

Article 30. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate
the sum of one hundred dollars ($100.00), and authorize the Selectmen
to appoint a director, the money to be expended by and the director to
serve in co-operation with the Middlesex County Trustees for County
Aid to Agriculture, in the work of the Middlesex County Extension
Service, under the provisions of Section 40 to 45, Chapter 128, General
Laws. Rolland L. Perry and others.

Article 30. On motion of Rolland L. Perry, it was voted that
the Town raise and appropriate the sum of one hundred dollars and
authorize the Selectmen to appoint a director, the money to be expended
by and the director to serve in co-operation with the Middlesex County
Trustees for County Aid to Agriculture in the "work of the Middlesex
County Extension Service under the provision of Section 40 to 45.
Chapter 128, General Laws. $100.00

Article 31. To see if the Town will vote to accept the provisions
of Chapter 327 of the Acts of 1904, now General Laws, Chapter 32,
Section 85, entitled “An Act to provide for the Pensioning Permanent
Members of. Police Department and Fire Department in Towns,” or
what it will do in relation thereto. Jeremiah Cullinane and others.

Article 31. On motion of Thomas E. Wall, it wTas voted to
accept the provisions of' Chapter 327, of the Acts of 1904, now General
Laws, Chapter 32, Section 85, entitled : “An Act to provide the pen-
sioning permanent members of Police Department and Fire De-
partment.”

Article 32. To see if the Town wTill raise and appropriate the
sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) for the maintenance of “Victory
House,” headquarters of Reading Post No. 62, American Legion, or
what it will do in relation thereto.

William T. W. Underwood and others.

Article 32. On motion of William T. W. Underwood, it was voted
that the sum of $500.00 be raised and appropriated for the maintenance

of Victory House, headquarters of Reading Post No. 62, American
Legion. $500.00

Article 2. On motion of Otis B. Ruggles, it was voted to take
this Article from the table.

Carl M. Spencer, Chairman of the Special Committee on Town
Finance made a report on same.

On motion of Otis B. Ruggles, it was voted to accept the
reports of the Town Officers, Finance Committee and Special Com-
mittee on Town Finance as printed.

The checkers reported that 511 voters were checked as admitted
to the Town Meeting.

Voted to adjourn sine die.

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.

PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY

Security Hall, April 24, 1928,

Pursuant to the warrant and the Constable’s return thereon, a
Presidential Primary was held at the time and place therein specified
and was called to order by the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen,
Elias B. Currell. The warrant was read and the Constable’s return
thereon, the ballots delivered to the Presiding Officer, the ballot boxes
examined and found empty and registering 0000.

The polls were duly declared open and were duly closed at 8
o’clock P. M. with the following result. Whole number of votes cast,
746. The ballot boxes showed that 748 had been registered which
was incorrect as the Check Lists showed that 746 names were checked
as having voted.

The Republican Party cast 700 votes,

The Democratic Party cast 46 votes

REPUBLICAN PARTY
Delegates at Large

William M. Butler, 231 Commonwealth Ave., Boston 599

Frederick H. Gillett, 140 Chestnut St., Springfield 614

Channing H. Cox, 173 Beacon St., Boston 584

Eben S. Draper, Adin St., Hopedale 494

Pauline R. Thayer, Lancaster 481

Minnie R. Dwight, 387 Appleton St.. Holyoke 451

Grace H. Bagiev, High St., Westwood 433

Frederick L. Anderson, 169 Homer St., Newton 295

Blanks 949

Alternate Delegates at Large

Louise M. Williams, 3 Dean St., Taunton 498

Mary Pratt Potter, 486 Main St., Greenfield 492

Eliot Wadsworth, 180 Marlborough St., Boston 504

Frederick H. Prince, Grapevine Road, Wenham 490

Butler Ames, 333 Andover St., Lowell 523

Edwin F. Leonard, 44 Copley Terrace, Springfield 474

Raoul H. Beaudreau, 60 Pleasant St., Marlborough 453

Blanks 1466

District Delegates, 5th Congressional District

Charles P. Howard, 122 Summer Ave., Reading 594

Charles A. Stevens, 377 Wilder St., Lowell 489

Irving A. Priest, Landam Road, Sudbury 77

Blanks 240

Alternate District Delegates, 5th Congressional District

Frank M. Andrews, 51 Pleasant St., Methuen 494

Edward T. Simoneau, 24 Ellis Ave., Marlborough 449

Blanks 457

Republican Presidential Preference

Hoover 147

Herbert Hoover 355

H. Hoover 20

Mr. Hoover 9

Herbert J. Hoover 3

Secretary Hoover 6

Mr. Herbert Hoover 2

Lowden 3

Frank O. Lowden 1

Dawes 4

Vice-President Dawes 2

Charles E. Dawes 3

C. Coolidge 2

Calvin Coolidge 20

Alvin T. Fuller 9

Charles E. Hughes 2

Charles H. Lindbergh 1

Nicholas Longworth 1

Gov. Alfred E. Smith of N. Y. 7

Al. Smith 1

Blanks 204

DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Delegates at Large

David I. Walsh, 37 Day St., Fitchburg 40

James M. Curley, 350 Jamaicaway, Boston 39

Andrew J. Peters, 310 South St., Boston 36

Charles H. Cole, 34 Gloucester St., Boston 33

Joseph B. Ely, 66 Broad St., Westfield 31

Helen A. MacDonald, 1 New Heath St., Boston 34

William J. Foley, 388 West Fourth St., Boston 35

Edward J. Kelley, 14 Gage St., Worcester 32

Lawrence F. Quigley, 867 Broadway, Chelsea 10

Blanks 78

Alternate Delegates at Large

Charles H. McGlue, 850 Mass. Ave., Cambridge 34

Strabo V. Claggett, 1820 Washington St., Newton 32

Joseph Santosuosso, 37 Brattle St., Boston 32

Bernard M. Wolf, 271 Dartmouth St., Boston 31

Elizabeth C. Mclnerney, 28 St. Albans Road, Boston 32

Dorothy Whipple Fry, 447 Warren St., Brookline 30

James A. Donovan, 16 Summit Ave., Lawrence 36

Raymond V. McNamara, 88 Fountain St., Haverhill 33

Blanks 108

District Delegates, 5th Congressional District

John W. Buey, 45 Wamesit St., Lowell 26

Cornelius F. Cronin, 344 Varnum Ave., Lowell 32

Cornelius Desmond, Jr., 235 Stackpole St., Lowell 20

John J. Gilbride, 14 Porter St., Lowell 19

Joseph M. Halloran, 317 Chelmsford St., Lowell 14

James F. Heslin, 139 Gershom Ave., Lowell 1

Katherine F. McCarthy, 647 Market St., Lowell 26

Edward J. Rogers, 779 Central St., Lowell 17

Blanks 35

Alternate District Delegates, 5th Congressional District

James V. Hennessy, 170 Commonwealth Ave., Concord 26

Sarah G. Sparks, 59 Elm St., Lowell 28

Patrick J. Meehan, 48 Highland St., Lowell 28

John J. O’Connor, 161 Salem St., Lowell 31

Michael J. Kelley, 560 Broadway, Lowell 4

John P. O’Connell, 7 Everett St., Lowell 3

Henry J. Sullivan, 173 Mt. Vernon St., Lowell 8

Blanks 56

Democratic Presidential Preference

Gov. Alfred E. Smith
Al. Smith
Alfred Smith
A. E. Smith
Blanks

SPECIAL TOWN MEETING

Security Hall, Woburn St., July 2, 1928.

Pursuant to the foregoing warrant and the Constable’s return
thereon, a Town meeting was held at the time and place specified
therein and was called to order by the Moderator, Hon. Charles P.
Howard. The warrant wTas partially read by the Town Clerk when
it was voted on motion of Elias B. Currell that further reading be
dispensed with except the Constable’s return. This was duly read.

Article 1. To hear and act on the reports of Town Officers and
special committees and determine what instructions will be given town
officers and special committees.

Article 1. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted to lay
this article on the table.

Article 2. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the
sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000) for Aid, Board and Care, or
what it will do in relation thereto. Board of Public Welfare.

Article 2. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted to raise
and appropriate two thousand dollars for Aid, Board and Care. ($2,000)

Article 3. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the
sum of three hundred dollars ($300) for maintenance and repairs of
the Municipal Building, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Board of Selectmen.

3. On motion of Elias B. Currell, it was voted to indefinitely
postpone this article.

Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to rescind the vote passed
March 12, 1928, under Article 15 in the Annual Town Warrant, with
reference to repair or erection of bridge over the Boston & Maine
Railroad at Mineral Street, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Board of Public Works.

Article 4. On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted to in-
definitely postpone this article.

Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to construct a new
bridge of reinforced concrete and steel over the Boston & Maine

Railroad at Mineral Street, and to see how much money it will raise,
by borrowing or otherwise, and appropriate therefor, or what it will
do in relation thereto. Board of Public Works.

Article 5. On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted to
indefinitely postpone this article.

Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report
of the Board of Public Works, upon the laying out as a public
highway, of a private way heretofore known as Weston Road, between
Bancroft Avenue, and Hanscom Avenue, such highway being laid
out in accordance with plans duly approved by the Board of Survey
and filed in the office of the Town Clerk, in accordance with the
statutory requirements and to see if the Town will accept the public
highway laid out by the Board of Public Works and heretofore
known as Weston Road, between Bancroft Avenue and Hanscom
Avenue, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Board of Public Works.

Article 6. Report of the Board of Public Works on laying out
Weston Road, between Bancroft Avenue and Hanscom Avenue.

We, the subscribers, Board of Public Works of Reading, aftef
giving due notice to all parties interested, have laid out for the Town
as a public town way described as follows :

Weston Road, between Bancroft Avenue and Hanscom Avenue,
it being a street or way situated in the Town of Reading and running
westerly from Bancroft Avenue to a Town way known as Hanscom
Avenue.

The southerly line of said Weston Road commences at a point
twenty-eight hundredths of a foot southerly from a drill hole in a
stone bound which marks a point of reverse curve in the westerly
sideline of Bancroft Avenue, having a radius of 377.42 feet.

From thence the said southerly line runs on a course of S. 72
degrees 59’ and 10 seconds W. a distance of 247.20 feet by land of
Marcia L. Thornburn, Julia G. Noyes and Caroline M. Childs to the
easterly side line of Hanscom Avenue, said point being at the end
of this layout.

The northerly line of said Weston Road is parallel with and forty
feet distant from the above-described southerly line and starts from
a stone bound on the westerly side line of Bancroft Avenue and runs
by land of R. W. Woodward, Jr. and James E. Marshall a distance
of 228.81 feet to the intersection of the easterly side line of Hanscom
Avenue, said point being at the end of this layout.

The above-described lines are more fully shown on a plan
entitled, “Weston Road, Reading, Mass., made by Davis and Abbott,
Civil Engineers, Reading, Mass.,” said plan being a part of this
description.

We recommend that when this report is accepted and adopted
by the Town, that said way shall thereafter be known as a public
Town way and named, “Weston Road.”

HARRY N. BROWN, Chairman,

SAMUEL H. DAVIS, Secretary,

MILES C. HIGGINS,

HAROLD W. PUTNAM,

MARTIN B. HARTSHORN,

Board of Public Works of Reading.

On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted to accept and
adopt the recommendation of the Board of Public Works and that
hereafter this public way described above shall be known as “Weston
Road.”

Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to accept the report
of the Board of Public Works upon the laying out, re-locating or
altering the public highway at tke northeast corner of Woburn and
West Streets in Reading,

Article 7. Report of the Board of Public Works upon the
laying out, re-locating or altering of the Public Highway at the north-
east corner of Woburn and West Streets in Reading, Mass.

We, the subscribers, Board of Public Works of Reading,- after
giving due notice to all parties interested, have laid out, re-located
or altered the public highway at the northeast corner of Woburn and
West Streets in Reading:

Beginning at a stone bound on the easterly side line of said
West Street, at the southerly end of a curved line the radius of which
is, 825 feet as shown on a plan of said West Street as laid out by the
County Commissioners in the year 1896.

From thence the area to be taken to re-locate said curve runs
on a bearing of S. 13 degrees and 29’ E. a distance of 30.47 feet to a
stone bound marking a point of curve :

Thence on a curve to the left with a radius of 12.78 feet a
length of 22.85 feet to a stone bound marking a point of tangent and
situated on the northerly side line of said Woburn Street :

Thence N. 60 degrees 04’ and 40 seconds E. a distance of 30.47
feet to a point of tangent on the said northerly line of Woburn Street.

Thence connecting with the stone bound first mentioned by a
curve line to the right with a radius of 37.27 feet a length of 66.63
feet. Said last mentioned line runs across land of George L. Downing.

The area to be taken in rounding or re-locating said corner is-
430 square feet.

Such highway being laid out, re-located or altered in accordance
with plan entitled, “Proposed Widening Woburn or West Streets-
dated, Feb. 1928, Davis & Abbott, Civil Engineers, Reading,” approved

by the Board of Public Works on June 22, 1928 and filed in the office
of the Town Clerk on June 23, 1928, said plan being a part of this
description.

We recommend that when this report is accepted and adopted
by the Town that said public highway shall thereafter be laid out, re-
located or altered in accordance with said plan and that the sum of
fifty dollars be raised and appropriated for the payment of any dam-
ages in connection therewith.

HARRY N. BROWN, Chairman,
SAMUEL H. DAVIS, Secretary,
HAROLD W. PUTNAM,

MARTIN B. HARTSHORN,

Board of Public Works of Reading.

On motion of Harry N. Brown, it was voted to accept the
Report of the Board of Public Works on the laying out and widening
of Woburn and West Streets and that the sum of fifty dollars be raised
and appropriated for damages for taking of land for said widening.

($50.00)

Article 8. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate the
sum of two hundred ($200) dollars for the painting of the name
’“READING,” on four sides of the Standpipe, or what it will do in
relation thereto.

Board of Public Works.

Article 8. On motion of Leone F. Quimby, it was voted that the
sum of two hundred dollars be raised and appropriated for the painting
of the name “READING,” on four sides of the Standpipe, to be painted
under the supervision of the Board of Public Works. ($200.00)

Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to remove the bandstand
from the Common to provide a suitable site for permanent World
War Memorial and to see if the Town will raise and appropriate the
sum of five hundred dollars ($500), for the cost of such removal, or
what it will do in relation thereto.

Article 9. A motion was made by Elias B. Currell that one
hundred dollars be raised and appropriated for the removal of the
band stand for a site for a World War Memorial.

It was not voted.

Article 10. To see if the Town will vote to amend or revise or
both its Zoning By-Laws, whether by the establishment of new
zones or by altering the restrictions with respect to existing zones
or both, so as to permit the erection of apartment houses in any Resi-
dence Districts, within a radius of one quarter mile from the south
westerly corner of Haven and Main Streets, or what it will do in
relation thereto.

Leone F. Quimby and others.

Article 10. Moved by Leone F. Quimby that the Zoning By-
Laws of the Town be and the same is amended by adding to Part II,
Sec. VI, Paragraph 7 thereof at the end of said paragraph the follow-
ing “the same shall likewise be permitted in any district, provided
the same be located in whole or part within a radius of one quarter
of a mile from the southwesterly corner of Haven and Main Sts. sub-
ject in all other respects to the restrictions applicable to the district
wherein the same may be located.

It was not voted.

Article 11. To see if the Town will vote to amend or revise or
both, its Zoning By-Laws whether by the establishment of new zones
or by altering the restrictions with respect to existing zones, or both
so as to permit the erection of any type of a two family house in any
Multiple Residence Districts, or what it will do in relation thereto.

Leone F. Quimby and others.

Article 11. It was moved by Leone F. Quimby that the Town
amend or revise Sec. V, Part II, Paragraph 2 of its Zoning By-Laws
by striking out the words, “Semi-Detached.”

On motion of Henry R. Johnson, it was voted to refer the
above to the Planning Board and three Voters to be appointed by the
Moderator and to report thereon at the next Town Meeting.

Article 12. To see if the Town will vote to amend or revise its
Zoning By-Laws, by striking out in Paragraph 1, Section XVIII of part
V the words, “But shall be in addition thereto.”

Leone F. Quimby and others.

Article 12. On motion of Leone F. Quimby, it was voted to
lay this article on the table.

Article 13. To see if the' Town will vote to construct an under-
pass (foot passage) and an intertrack fence at the Reading Railroad
Station, and to see how much money it will raise, by borrowing or
otherwise, and appropriate therefor, or what it will do in relation
thereto.

Reading Safety Council.

Article 13. Laura S. Gordon moved that the Board of Public
Works be and they hereby are authorized to enter into in the name
and behalf of the Town, an agreement with the Boston & Maine R. R.
relative to the construction of an underpass for foot passage beneath
the tracks of the said R. R., connecting Haven St., with Lincoln St.,
said agreement to be substantially in the form of draft agreement
which has been prepared and submitted to and approved by said R. R.,
and that for the purposes of said agreement there be raised and ap-
propriated the sum of $14,900.00, $4,900.00 of which shall be raised in
the tax levy of the current year, and the balance of $10,000.00 by bor-
rowing, and the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and

he hereby is authorized to borrow the said sum of $10,000.00 and to
issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor, the same to be payable
in accordance with the provisions of Section 19, Chapter 44 of the
General Laws, so that the whole loan shall be paid in not more than
five years from the date of issue of the first bond or note or at such
earlier date as the Treasurer and Selectmen may determine, the said
sum of $14,900.00 to be expended under the direction of the said
Board of Public Works in fulfilling the obligations incurred by the
Town under the provisions of said agreement.

It was voted by Melville F. Weston that the question embodied
in the motion now before the Town be referred to the next Annual
Meeting to be decided by ballot with an appropriate modification so
as to relate to the Tax levy of the then current year.

On motion of Rolland L. Perry, it was voted to indefinitely
postpone Article 13.

Article 14. To see if the Town will raise and appropriate three
hundred ($300), for Board of Assessors’ Expenses, or what it will do
in reation thereto.

Board of Assessors.

Article 14. On motion of Otis B. Ruggles, it was voted to raise
and appropriate three hundred dollars for the Board of Assessors’
Expenses. ($300.00).

The following were appointed by the Selectmen to serve as
checkers on the Check List at the Special Town Meeting.

CHARLES A. SULLIVAN, JESSIE N. THAXTER,

GEORGE L. PRATT, PHILOMENA C, DOUCETTE,

They reported that 207 voters were checked as attending the
Town Meeting.

Voted tot adjourn sine die.

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.

STATE PRIMARY

Security Hall, Woburn St., Sept. 18, 1928.
Pursuant to warrant and Constable’s return thereon, a Primary
Meeting was held at the place and at the time specified therein and
was called to order by Selectman, Charles F. Trevor. The ballots
were delivered to the Presiding Officer. The warrant was partially
read when it was voted to dispense writh further reading except the
Constable’s return wdiich was duly read and the polls were declared
open and were duly closed with the following result.

Whole number of ballots cast 2586

The Republican vote was 2348

The Democratic vote was 238

The votes were counted and declared in open Town Meeting
with the following detailed result.

REPUBLICAN PARTY

Governor

Frank G. Allen, 289 Walpole St., Norwood 1600

Frank A. Goodwin, 17 Wade St., Boston 704

Blanks 44

Lieutenant Governor

George A. Bacon, 690 Longmeadow St., Longmeadow 97

Charles Lawrence Burrill, 44 Joy St., Boston 211

Peter1 G. Holmes, 27 Holden St., Worcester 42

John C. Hull, 84 Grove St., Leominster 610

Robert M. Leach, 44 Harrison St., Taunton 176

Wycliffe C. Marshall, 55 Bradford Road, Watertown 21

John H. Sherburne, 92 High St., Brookline 514

William Sterling Youngman, 10 Orkney Road, Boston 520

Blanks 157

Secretary

Frederic W. Cook, 75 Benton Road, Somerville 2081

Blanks 267

Treasurer

Fred J. Burrell, 7 Revere Place, Medford 653

John W. Haigis, 24 Church St., Greenfield 629

J. Ernest Kerr, 249 Park St., Boston 322

Russell A. Wood, 11 Whittier St., Cambridge 492

Blanks 252

Auditor

Dwight L. Allison, 214 Sycamore St., Watertown 140

Julia B. Buxton, 70 Woodside Terrace, Springfield 90

Roland H. Choate, 14 Webster Road, Milton 572

Alonzo B. Cook, 27 Wales St., Boston 1003

Harvey E. Frost, 77 Avon, St., Somerville 98

Roswell F. Phelps, 127 Oakdale Ave., Dedham *65

Blanks 280

Attorney-General

Clarence A. Barnes, 79 Rumford Ave., Mansfield 472

Joseph E. Warner, 52 Church Green, Taunton 1616

Blanks 260

Senator in Congress

Butler Ames, 333 Andover St., Lowell 1050

Eben S. Draper, Adin St., Hopedale 488

Benjamin Loring Young, Newton St., Weston 654

Blanks 156

Congressman, 5th District

Edith Nourse Rogers, 444 Andover St., Lowell 2159

Blanks 189

Councillor, 6th District

Harvey L. Boutwell, 209 Summer St., Malden 1435

Joseph F. Dyer, 67 Forest St., Medford 408

Blanks 505

Senator, 7th Middlesex District

Joseph R. Cotton, 53 Marrett Road, Lexington 1327

Alice F. D. Pearson, 69 Clitheroe St., Lowell 783

Blanks 238

Representatives, 13th Middlesex District

Louis Ellenwood, 10 Gould St., Reading 1543

Edgar Norman Hunt, 130 Summer Ave., Reading 430

Robert B. Mount, 125 Ash St., Reading 1132

Wilford A. Walker, 53 Bow St., Woburn 975

Blanks 616

County Commissioners, Middlesex County
Nathaniel I. Bowditch, Edmands Road, Framingham 1671

Walter C. Wardwell, 465 Broadway, Cambridge 1724

Blanks 1301

Clerk of Courts, Middlesex County
Ralph N. Smith, 33 Gray St., Arlington 1929

Blanks 419

Blanks 428

Associate Commissioner, Middlesex County
(to fill vacancj')

Daniel D. Gorman, 19 Banks St., Somerville 405

Melvin G. Rogers, Whipple Road, Tewksbury 1395

Blanks 54*8

State Committee, 7th Middlesex District

Mary F. Daniel, 17 Harnden St., Reading 1707

Blanks 641

Delegates to State Convention

Louise B. Maxwell, 250 Main St., Reading 1910

Annie E. Patrick, 312 Main St., Reading 1908

Arthur S. Cook, 59 Bancroft' Ave., Reading 1945

Harold F. Parker, 24 Pratt St. 1924

Katherine G. Howard, 122 Summer Ave. 1891

Edward B. Eames, 193 Main St. 1909

Louis Davis, 6 Vine St. 1875

Ruth W. Currier, 31 Pratt St. 1882

Grace L. Twombly, 35 Highland St. 1954

Blanks ' 3904

Town Committee

Mary F. Daniel, 17 Harnden St. 1841

Harold F. Parker, 24 Pratt St. 1846

Arthur S. Cook, 59 Bancroft Ave. 1846

Louis Ellenwood, 10 Gould St. 1894

A. Gertrude Killam, 16 Arlington St. 1822

Grace L. Twombly, 35 Highland St. 1846

Louise B. Maxwell, 250 Main St. 1805

Annie E. Patrick, 312 Main St. 1817

Katherine G. Howard, 122' Summer Ave. 1802

Edward B. Eames, 193 Main St. 1820

Truesdell C. Fife, 6 Union St. 1802

Helen R. Grimes, 141 Woburn St. 1811

Louis Davis, 6 Vine St. 1813

Edward E. Harnden, 195 Summer Ave. 1825

James W. Fairchild, 394 Main St. 1853

Blanks 7727

DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Governor

Charles H. Cole, 34 Gloucester St., Boston 173

John J. Cummings, 433 Adams St., Boston 40

Blanks 25

Lieutenant-Governor

John F. Malley, 188 Commonwealth Ave., Newton 117

Charles S. Murphy, 33 Commodore Road, Worcester 67

Blanks 54

Secretary

Joseph Santosuosso, 47 Brattle St., Boston 144

Blanks 94

Treasurer

James P. Bergin, 24 Klebart Ave., Webster 95

Daniel England, 175 Wendall Ave., Pittsfield 61

Blanks 82

Auditor

Strabo V. Claggett, 1820 Washington St., Newton 76

Irving Lewis, 32 Linwood St., Boston 23

.Francis J. O’Gorman, 39 Cushman Road, Boston 77

Blanks 62

Attorney -General

Edward P. Barry, 32 Sigourney St., Boston 90

William R. Scharton, 10 Franklin St., Reading 120

Blanks 28

Senator in Congress

David I. Walsh, 37 Day St., Fitchburg 219

Blanks 19

Congressman, 5th District

Cornelius F. Cronin, 344 Varnum Ave., Lowell 105

Joseph M. Halloran, 317 Chelmsford St., Lowell 46

James F. Heslin, 139 Gershom Ave., Lowell 17

Blanks 70

Councillor, 6th District

Robert J. Muldoon, 24 Putnam St., Somerville 116

Blanks . 122

Senator, 7th Middlesex District

Blanks 238

Representatives in General Court,

18th Middlesex District

Frank E. Gray, 91 Middlesex Ave., Reading 220

Daniel S. Jones, 16 Winn St., Woburn 29

James H. McLaughlin, 35 Chestnut St., Woburn 90

Blanks 137

County Commissioners, Middlesex County

George L. Colson, 57 Pleasant St., Wakefield 133

Daniel F. McBride, 504 Fellsway East, Malden 129

Blanks 214

Clerk of Courts, Middlesex County

Blanks 238

John C. Kelleher, 8 Bigelow St., Somerville. 149

Blanks 89

Associate County Commissioner, Middlesex County
(to fill vacancy)

Blanks 238

State Committee, 7th Middlesex District

John J. Gilbride, 14 Porter St., Lowell 58

Jerome J. O’Leary, Swain Road, Wilmington 87

Blanks 93

Delegates to State Convention

Edward G. Quinlan, 228 Main St. 181

Catherine E. Reilly, 19 Middlesex Ave. Ext. 169

Joseph C. Schimpfke, 123 West St. 151

Mary E. Cummings, 41 Salem St. 160

Albert J. Wright, 23 Locust St. 158

Margaret A. Canty, 39 Mineral St. 158

Mary J. Weafer, 163 High St. 166

Millard F. Charles, 66 Bancroft Ave. 159

James E. Lewis, Park St. 160

Frank E. Gray, 91 Middlesex Ave. 192

Blanks 736

Town Committee

Margaret A. Canty, 39 Mineral St. 159

Owen McKenney, 116 John St. 160

Millard F. Charles, 66 Bancroft Ave. 157

Frank E. Gray, 91 Middlesex Ave. 174

James A. Waters, 9 Chute St. 152

Edward G. Quinlan, 228 Main St. 167

Catherine E. Reilly, 19 Middlesex Ave. Ext. 153

Joseph C. Schimpfke, 123 West St. 146

Mary E. Cummings, 41 Salem St. 152

Albert J. Wright, 23 Locust St. 155

Mary, J. Weafer, 163 High St. 151

James H. Fleming, 18 Green St. 149

Marguerite L. Jones, 7 Warren Ave. 145

George F. A. McDougall, Lafayette Road 149

Margaret T. Lyons, 3 Vale Road 144

John J. Carney, 19 Park Ave. 139

James E. Lewis, Park St. 152

Margaret A. Thornton, 6 Minot St. 155

Blanks 1525

The votes of each party were counted separately and signed,
sealed and delivered to the Town Clerk, whereupon the meeting
adjourned.

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.

STATE AND NATIONAL ELECTION

Security Hall, Woburn St., Nov. 6, 1928.

Pursuant to the warrant and the Constable’s return, a Town
Meeting was held at the time and place mentioned therein and was
called to order by the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Elias B.
Currell. The warrant was duly read and the ballots were delivered
to Chairman of the Selectmen, the ballot boxes were opened, examined
and declared empty and the keys delivered to the Constable in charge,
James W. Sias. The polls were duly declared open and they were

duly closed at 8 o’clock P. M. with the following result. The check
lists showed that 4521 names were checked and the ballots counted by
the Tellers totaled 4521 divided as follows :

Electors for President and Vice-President

Workers’ Party — Foster and Gitlow

Herbert Riley of Boston (at large) 1

Robert Zeims of Boston (at large) 1

William Janhonen of Gardner 1

John Louko of Norwood 1

Herny Gage of Brockton 1

George Kraska of Winthrop 1

Emma P. Hutchins of Boston 1

Joseph Glasburg of Worcester 1

Shalom Reinstein of Chelsea 1

Adolph Suikonen of Maynard 1

Joseph Goldberg of Lynn 1

Lewis Marks of Boston 1

John Hurwitz of Boston 1

Elsie Pultur of Boston 1

Alexander Taraska of Lowell 1

Nathan G. Kay of Boston 1

Stephen Puleo of Boston 1

Boris Kleid of Boston 1

Republican, Hoover and Curtis

Mabel C. Batchelder of Worcester (at large) 3430

John Richardson of Canton (at large) 3430

Oscar LaMontague of Holyoke 3430

Phelps Brown of Springfield 3430

Calvin D. Paige of Southbridge 3430

George F. Booth of Worcester 3430

Raoul H. Beaudreau of Marlborough 3430

Elizabeth H. Dunham of Salem 3430

Cornelius J. Corcoran of Methuen 3430

Hildegarde I. Christiansen of Belmont 3430

Frank A. Bayrd of Malden 3430

Edward G. Graves of Boston 3430

Guy W. Cox of Boston 3430

Sadie Lipner Shulman of Boston 3430

E. Mark Sullivan of Boston 3430

Adeline Ricci of Quincy 3430

Carl A. Terry of Fall River 3430

Bertha N. Packard of Fairhaven 3430

Socialist Labor, Reynolds and Crowley

Louis Galber of Lynn (at large) 0

Felix Manevitz of Boston (at large) 0

Patrick A. Murphy of Greenfield 0

George A. Massiotis of Springfield 0

Alonzo D. Wheeler of Westminister 0

Olof Olson of Worcester 0

John R. MacKinnon of Lowell 0

John T. Mattson of Gloucester 0

Fred E. Oelcher of Peabody 0

Peter O’Rourke of Medford 0

Daniel T. Messington of Somerville 0

Barnet Wasserman of Chelsea 0

Albert L. Waterman of Boston 0

Domenico A. diGirolamo of Boston 0

David Craig of Milford 0

John A. Nelson of Quincy 0

Harry Bently of Fall River 0

Amadee F. Vassar of Plymouth 0

Democratic, Smith and Robinson

Arthur Lyman of Waltham (at large) 1014

Martha R. Peters of Boston (at large) 1014

Daniel Englund of Pittsfield 1014

Ray Stannard Baker of Amherst 1014

Marcus A. Coolidge of Fitchburg 1014

Thomas J. Barrett of Worcester 1014

Humphrey O’Sullivan of Lowell 1014

Laurence P. Dodge <5f Newburyport 1014

Agnes F. Higgins of Lawrence 1014

Jessie Woodrow Sayre of Cambridge 1014

Melvin B. Breath of Chelsea 1014

Felix Marcella of Boston 1014

James M. Curley of Boston 1014

William J. Foley of Boston 1014

Strabo V. Claggett of Newton 1014

Frank J. Donahue of Boston 1014

Edmond P. Talbor of Fall River 1014

James P. Doran of New Bedford 1014

Socialist, Thomas and Maurer

Charlotte B. Hallowell of Medford (at large) 4

George E. Roewer of Cambridge (at large) 4

Vincent G. Burns of Pittsfield 4

Nelson J. West of Springfield 4

John Suominen of Fitchburg 4

Thomas J. Conroy of Worcesters 4

William E. Sproule of Lowell 4

Leonard Spalding of Newburyport 4

Thomas J. Nicholson of Lawrence 4

Sylvester J. McBride of Watertown 4

Max Sandler of Chelsea 4

Reuben Guralnick of Boston 4

Lucy Lee of Boston 4

Joseph Bearok of Boston 4

Patrick J. Leonard of Brookline 4

Franklin K. Gifford of Brockton 4

Hugh Dunbar of No. Attleboro 4

Walter Barlow of New Bedford 4

Governor

Frank G. Allen of Norwood 3329

Chester W. Bixby of Haverhill 1

Charles H. Cole of Boston 1057

Washington Cook of Boston 7

Mary Donovan Hapgood of No. Brookfield 8

Edith Hamilton MacFadden of Cambridge 1

Stephen J. Surridge of Lynn 0

Blanks 118

Lieutenant-Governor

John Corbin of Worcester 9

Henry C. Hess of Boston 5

Walter S. Hutchins of Greenfield 13

John F. Malley of Newton ‘ 948

William Sterling Youngman of Boston 3308

Blanks 238

Secretary

Henry J. Canter of Boston 10

Frederic W. Cook of Somerville 3360

Oscar Kinsalas of Springfield 1

Joseph Santasuosso of Boston 814

Edith M. Williams of Brookline 17

Blanks 319

Treasurer

James P. Bergin of Webster 848

Albert Sprague Coolidge of Pittsfield 22

John W. Haigis of Greenfield 3338

Albert Oddie of Brockton 6

Charles S. Oram of Boston 3

Blanks 304

Auditor

John W. Aiken of Chelsea 13

Alonzo B. Cook of Boston 3164

David A. Eisenberg of Boston 8

Eva Hoffman of Boston 10

Francis J. O’Gorman of Boston 939

Blanks 387

Attorney- General

Edward P. Barry of Boston 897

Morris I. Becker of Boston 4

Max Lerner of Worcester 3

John Weaver Sherman of Boston 13

Joseph E. Warner of Taunton 3329

Blanks 275

Senator in Congress

John J. Ballam of Boston 6

Alfred, Baker Lewis of Cambridge 6

David I. Walsh of Fitchburg 1221

Benjamin Loring Young of Weston 3129

Blanks 159

Congressman, 5th District

Cornelius F. Cronin of Lowell 777

Edith Nourse Rogers of Lowell 3459

Blanks 285

Councillor, 6th District

Harvey L. Boutwell of Malden 3267

Robert J. Muldoon of Somerville 814

Blanks 440

Senator, 7th Middlesex District

Benjamin F. Butler of Wakefield 901

Joseph R. Cotton of Lexington 3196

Blanks . 424

Representatives in General Court, 18th Middlesex District

Louis Ellenwood of Reading 3108

Frank E. Gray of Reading 1213

Daniel S. Jones of Woburn 545

Wilford A. Walker of Woburn 2726

Blanks 1450

County Commissioners, Middlesex County

Nathaniel I. Bowditch of Framingham 2923

George L. Colson of Wakefield 829

Daniel F. McBride of Malden 675

Walter C. War dwell of Cambridge 3001

Blanks 1614-

Clerk of Courts, Middlesex County

John D. Mederios of Somerville 747

Ralph N. Smith of Arlington 3115

Blanks 659

John C. Kelleher of Somerville 765

Thomas Leighton of Cambridge 3092

Blanks 664

Associate Commissioner, Middlesex County
(to fill vacancy)

Melvin G. Rogers of Tewksbury 3206

Blanks 1315

Sunday Sports on the Lord’s Day

Yes 1366

No 2325

Blanks 830

Question of Public Policy on Instruction to Senator for Repeal of
the 18th Amendment

Yes 1401

No 2321

Blanks 799

The votes were counted, sealed- and delivered to the Town Clerk
in open Town Meeting, whereupon the meeting was adjourned sine die.

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.

NOTICE TO PARENTS. HOUSEWIVES, PHYSICIANS AND

MIDWIVES

Your Attention is Called to the Sections Below Taken from the
Revised Laws. — Blank Forms for Return of Births Can be
Obtained of the Town Clerk

SECTION 3, CHAPTER 444, ACTS 1897

Section 3. Physicians and midwives shall on or before the fifth
day of each month report to the clerk of each city or town a correct
list of all children born therein during the month next preceding, at
whose birth they were present, stating the date and place of each
birth, the name of the child, if it has any, the sex and color of the
child, the name, place of birth and residence of the parents, the maiden
name of the mother, and occupation of the father. If the child is
illegitimate the name of the father shall not be stated, unless at the
joint request in writing of both father and mother, which request
shall be filed with the returns of births. The fee of the physicians
or midwives shall be twenty-five cents for each birth so reported, and
shall be paid by the city or town in which the report is made, upon
presentation of a certificate from the city or town clerk, stating that
said births have been reported in conformity with the requirements
of this section. Any physician or midwife neglecting to report such
list for ten days after it is due shall for each offence forfeit a sum not
exceeding twenty-five dollars.

SECTION 6, CHAPTER 444, ACTS 1897

Section 6. Parents and householders shall within forty (40)
days after the date of a birth occurring in his house give thereof or
cause such notice to be given to the clerk of the city or town in which
such child is born.

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.

HUNTING AND FISHING LICENSES IN 1928

252 Sporting Licenses @ $2.25 $ 567.00

20 Trappers’ Licenses @ $2.25 45.00

1 Non-Resident Sporting Licenses @ $2.25 2.25

26 Minors’ Trapping Licenses @ 75c 19.50

2 Duplicate Licenses @ 50c 1.00

Total receipts $ 634.75

299 Licenses at 25c., Town Clerk’s fee 74.75

Balance due Fish and Game Commission $ 560.00

1928 Paid Fish and Game Commission :

April 20 Paid $ 6.00

May 8 Paid 62.00

June 5 Paid 48.00

July 3 Paid 54.00

Aug. 7 Paid 30.00

Aug. 11 Paid 99.00

Sept. 5 Paid 24.00

Oct. 3 Paid 52.50

Nov. 8 Paid 138.50

Dec. 5 Paid 45.50

Jan. 19 Paid .50

$ 560.00

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.

DOGS LICENSED DURING YEAR 1928

Jan. 1, 1928:

350 Male dogs licensed @ $2.00 $ 700.00

58 Female dogs licensed @ $5.00 290.00

1 Kennel license @ 25.00 25.00

Total Receipts $ 1,015.00

409 Licenses at 20c., Town Clerk’s fee 81.80

Paid County Treasurer $ 933.20

Dec. 1, 1928

155 Male dogs licensed @ $2.00 $ 310.00

45 Female dogs licensed @ $5.00 225.00

1 Kennel license *@ $50.00 50.00

Total Receipts $ 585.00

201 Licenses at 20., Town Clerk’s fee 40.20

Paid County Treasurer $ 544.80

Total Paid County Treasurer $ 1,478.00

MILLARD F. CHARLES, Town Clerk.

BIRTHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928.

Date Name Parents

Jan.

1 Robert Daniel Griffin

2 Ella May White

5 William Henry Lee

9 Philip Keleer Sawyer

10 Marion Evelyn Muse

11 Stuart Sarglent MacLeod
17 Joseph Willard Comeau

17 Raphnel Forest Staples

18 Natalie Elizabeth Davis

18 Ann Doris Waldron

24 Elizabeth Claire Brown

25 George Robert White
28 Harold' Frank Lewis

Feb.

1 Edward Leo Surette

3 Charles Merle Farr

4 Lorraine Rita LeFave

7 Mildred Charlotte Heselton

12 Katherine Ann Geary

13 Carolyn Faith Nichols

16 Anne Mitchell

17 Richard George Franklin

22 Edith Ann Meuse

23 Muriel Elaine Castine

26 Ernest Garcelon Babcock, Jr.

27 Barbara Eloise Flint

28 Barbara Jeanne Cox

29 Lawrence William Cclford

Mar.

3 John Henry LeFave, Jr.

7 Charles Hubert Winn
9 Irene Helen White
10 Anne Frances Halloran
13 Joan Gibson
16 Dorothy May Sullivan

18 Ethel Ann Burbine

24 Agnes Mary Arsenault

John J. and Margaret D.
Harry E. and Nellie H.

William H. and Mildred C.
Frederick D. and Harriet F.
Benjamin and Sylvia D.
Herbert W. and Katherine B.
Joseph A. and Mary C.
Malcolm L. and Margaret N_
Victor H. and Madeline H.
Harry E. and Clara L.

Ftancis X. and Elizabeth P.
John T. and Harriet P.
Frank A. and Edna S.

Leo A. and Alethea A.

Merle W. and Edna G.

John L. and Mabel D.

Robert M. and Mary C.

Paul and Katherine S.

Elmer B and Rena F.

John and Bertha B.

Benjamin and Alida A.
Dennis L. and Rose D.
Clarence E. and Kathryn T.
Ernest G. and Florence F.
Russell A. and Bernice S.
Raleigh E. and Beatrice B.
Alfred J. and Annie B.

John H. and Geneva C.
Charles H. and Agnes D.
Adrian and Mary H.

Martin J. and Alice H.
Frederick B. and Effie B.
Charles H. and Mary D.

J. Edward and Rose D.

John R. and Matilda D.

BIRTHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928

Date Name

Parents

26 Russell Francis Pollitz

27 Bernard William D’Entremcnt

28 Dexter Warren Jacobs

29 Dorothy Lee Conron
29 Laura May Muse

31 Finley Hugh Chisholm

Apr.

2 George Paris Walls
4 Eleanor Augustine Dcucette

4 Charles Newcomb Rogers
TO Mary Eva Doucette

13 Kenneth Douglas Downs
13 Paul Joseph Nunes Silva

16 Earl Edward Angus Martin

19 Mildred Elizabeth Fie welling

20 Earl Edwin Opland

23 Cortland Westey Moore

28 Robert Eliot Meekins

29 George Ives Philbrook

May

1 Warren Herbert Steeves

5 Paul Everett Grant

7 Salvatore Caarinarata, Jr.

8 Edward Wright

10 Elizabeth Loretta Hickey

11 Hugh Edward Campbell

11 John Francis O’Donnell

12 Howard Arthur Ferreira

12 Bhirley Naomi Humphrey

13 Joseph Lawrence Doucette, Jr.

17 Carl Richmond Woodward
19 Mary Elizabeth Noonan

21 Walter Arthur Dagdigian
21 Ruth Anne Horrigan

21 Donald MTarchetti

22 Rena Frances Doucette

27 Priscilla Davis

28 Pamela Caroline Schindler

29 Lois Telfer

31 Frederick Lee Douglass, Jr.

Otto F. and Merle R.
Edmund and Mary D.
Joseph J. and Sarah S.
Arthur L. and Dorothy B.
Peter and Mary A.

Hugh J. and Violet S.

Francis S. and Suzanne P.
Louis A. and Frances M.
Harold M. and Hattie N.
Charles H. and Eva D.
Benjamin J.and Marian B.
Joseph and Dorothy S.
Edward H. and Lucy M.
Russell S. and Mildred S.
Alfred W. and Lillian S.
Myron M. and Ethelwyn F.
Edward E. and Olga N.
Verne H. and Viola S.

Herbert B. and Emma H.
John E. Jr. and Florence T.
Salvatore and Rose F.

Albert J. and Catherine B.
George T. and Elizabeth M.
William H. and Mary G.
Michael J. and Madeline C.
Ralph A. and Frances E.
George A. and Fleda B.

Joseph L. and Mary A.
Richmond W. Jr. and Elsa S.
Edward M. and Delia M.
Aaron and Elsie S.

Michael B. and Grace C.

Hugo H. and Helen W.
Edward and Marion M.

Louis and Priscilla T.
Frederick and Elizabeth M.
Harold C. and Hilda W.
Frederick L. and Katherine L.

BIRTHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928

Date Name Parents

June

1 Sally Jeannette Decie

7 Richard Mouser

8 George Joseph Ingalls, 3d,

8 Richard Adolph LeBlanc

10 Barbara Joyce Lowell

11 Malcolm Earle MacLeod

12 Ernest Stewart Hickman, Jr.

12 Robert Philip Lyle, Jr.

18 Barbara Elizabeth Sargent

29 Virginia Sears

30 Caroline Frances Smalley

July

3 Richard Earle Tower

6 Eleanor Johnston Burbank

7 Catherine Mary Doucette
10 Beatrice Doucette

12 Mary Frances Curtin
17 Patricia Claire Brogan
17 Patricia Mary Hoyt

19 Mlaurice Henry Donegan
22 {Richard Bemis Brown

24 Avery

25 Ruth Mildred Seaman

31 Richard' Walter Henderson, 2d.
31 Lea Helen Surette,

Aug.

4 Merton Henry Peters

5 Adelbert Leo D’Entremont

14 Jean Elizabeth Murdock

14 Lawrence Hunt Parker, Jr.

15 Richard Johnson

15 Josephine Helen Moore
1 0 Muse

24 PastcTa Chase

26 Irene Frances Brewer

27 Paul Edward Hatfield
30 Mary Louise Holcomb

William H. and Georgiana F.
George T. and Bessie H.
George J. and Meta B.
Louis J. and Lena W.

Robert D. and Lillian H.
Everett W. and Mildred R.
Ernest S. and Mildred L.
Robert P. and Ruth G.

Frank H. and Gertrude R.
Fred L. and Laneta P.

James J. and Elizabeth H.

Lome W. and Christine S.
Thomas and Euphemia J.
Jeffrey and Catherine D.
Harvey and Beatrice M.
Arthur M. and Margaret G.
Edwin A. and Hilda C.

Carl H. and Florence D.
Maurice H. and Doris B.
John Stanley and Alice M.
Edwin H. and Lillian C.
Frank T. and Ruth G.
Richard W. and Irene M.
Mathew and Bertha W.

Joseph L. and Marie P.
Pius L. and Esther D.
Malcolm W. and Mary K.
Lawrence H. and Grace W.
William J. and Georgina D.
Albert G. and Mary F.
Louis and Helen L.

Carll S. and Eleanor Upton
Frederic, Jr. and May S.
William and Edna W.
Charles A. and Edith W.

BIRTHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928
Date Name Parents

Sept.

Catherine Olga Gaw

George D. ana Jennie C.

Laura May Livingstone

Kenneth R. and Elizabeth L.

Marjorie Lois Nickerson

Frank A. and Marjorie G.

Hatfield

John M. and Florence C.

Richard William Meuse

Henry J. and Minnie D.

Catherine Theresa Slack

Frank T. and Mary D.

Lawrence Scott Webster

Lee H. and Alice L.

Francis Quinlan

John J. and Mary D.

Ruth Elaine Chandler

Myron K. and Dorothy S.

Jean Carolyn Metcalf

Harold R. and Winifred S.

Donald Brown Kimball

Walter B. and Marie B.

Theresa Madeline Squires

George S. and Theresa T.

Joseph Dcnald Surrette

Reuben I. and Maud Doucette

Oct.

Frederick Francis Walsh

David J. and Elizabeth C.

Ignatius Manuel

James and Freda J.

Emily Fitzgerald

Maurice and Pauline D.

Mildred Fitzgerald

Maurice and Pauline D.

Mildred Emma. Pepe

Joseph and Mary M.

Edward Chester Baxter

Edward C. and Winifred M.

Lucia Rossetti Diaz

Raymond R. and Conception D.

Marilyn Frances Hatch

William H. and Ida N.

Anne Veronica O’Keefe

Daniel J. and Bridget M.

Albert Edwin Merrill, Jr.

Albert E. and Mary A.

Dorothy Jones

William F. and Marguerite H.

Marilyn Dill

George E. and Gladys K.

Joseph Bella

Samuel and Mary A.

Joan Batting

Joseph R. and Frances S.

Nov.

Joan Desmond

Daniel J. and Helen T.

Ralph Aubrey Bedley

Freeman A. and Catherine F.

John Richard Tebeau

George and Irene D.

Kenneth Franklin Florence

William E. and Edith B.

Patricia Ann ThorDurn

Robert H. and Dorothy M.

Jean Moore Cleary

Raymond Hanson and Hazel S.

Jean WLitcomb

Frederick R. and Georgia C.

James Edward Gillespie

Charles H. and Julia C.

Barbara Jane Andrews

Jacob S. and Beatrice S.

Robert Dennis Ameriault

Joseph and Jeannette M.

BIRTHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928

Date Name

Parents

Dec.

1 Donald Peter Roberts
6 Louis Kenneth Runge
9 Donald Paul Stratton
15 Charles Edward Runge

William and M'ary Q.
Louis B. and Mildred C.
Charles P. and Ruth L.
Carl 0. and Dorothy S.

27 William John McCoy, Jr. William J. and Edna H.

28 Robert Edward Dacey Frederick F. and Alexina Z.

BIRTHS REGISTERED IN READING FOR PREVIOUS YEARS

1927

May

19 Lloyd Ward Harrison

John W. and Bertha W.

MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928

Date Names Age Occupation Residence

Jan.

Bruce 0. S. Swasey

Mechanic

Salem

Dorothy G. Andrews

At Home

Salem

W alter Brownell Knutton

Student Longmeadow, R. I.

Viola Gladys Hamilton

Stenographer Warwick, R. I.

Carmen R. Rushton

Florist

Reading

Dorothy F. Heselton

At Home

Reading

Samuel Bella

Barber

Reading

Mary Amireault

Seamstress

Reading

William Joseph Dcnegan

Plumber

Wakefield

Alice Margaret Donegan

Mill Worker

Reading

Feb.

George Arthur Jack

Stationary Fireman

Brookline

Alice Gertrude Tebeau

At Home

Reading

Jacob Woodward Manning

Landscape Architect

Cambridge

Ethel Frances (Belknap) Guild 44

Nurse

Reading

Frank F. Marchetti

Metal Worker

Reading

Vivian L. (Stuart) Constantine 28

Nurse

Boston

Mar.

George L. Gilman

R. R. Conductor

Reading

Blanche E. (Dowley) Corning 58

Housework

Reading

Ellis George Walker

Painter

Reading

Frances Boudreau

Coat Maker

Reading

Joseph Nunes Silva

Leather Worker

Peabody

Dorothy Harriet Jones

At Home

Reading

Alexander Taylor Mitchell

Clerk

Lawrence

Dorothea Beatrice Davis

At Home

Reading

Frank Leason Doucette

Machine Operator

Reading

Ruth Frances Doucette

At Home

Reading

Apr.

George Kelso

Market Gardener

Reading

Florence Evelyn Huxtable

Typist

Somerville

John William Kelley

Clerk

Reading

Marie Cathleen Fisher

Bookkeeper

Somerville

Philip Henry O’Brien

Mechanic

Reading

Eva Agnes Letoumeau

Waitress

Stoneham

Myron E. Barnes

Dairyman

Lynn

Olive G. Morang

Stenographer

Lynn

Robert Malcolm Brown

Paying Teller

Reading

MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928

Date Names Age Occupation Residence

Greta Clarabel Simpson
28 Jacob Sherman Andrews
Beatrice Lillian Sears

May

I Robert H. Thorburn
Dorothy L. Mountain
28 Lawson Edward Jeanes
Doris Mabel Hutchinson
28 Julius Zanni

Caroline Frances (Gilligan)
Flint

June

6 Joesua Aubrey Meuse
Annie Gelena Saulnier

9 Frederick James Emerson
Ruth Christabel Burrows
36 Arthur Henry Bowe
Pearl E. (Orde) Johnson
17 Frank H. Bonneau

Jennie (Pendrick) Meuse
17 Charles Herbert Choate
Violette Ethel Barnes
17 Charles Maurice Cullinane
Stella Mary Nevin
17 John Francis Thornton
Grace Gertrude Matthews

38 William Patrick Fitzgerald

Florence Marie Kelley

39 Thenna Perley Fancy
Marion Josephine Currier

19 Milton Bancroft Yiall
Jennie Louise Gaw

20 Lewis Quimby Smith
Lillian Eleanor Field

23 Francis G. Buzzell
Irene E. Coburn
23 James Melvin MacDearmid
Rena Stanley French
23 George Frederick Rogers

Stenographer

Allstcja

Student

Gloucester

Student

Reading

Foreman

Salem

Clerk

Boston

Auto Business

No. Reading

At Home

Reading

Contractor

Reading

At Home

Wakefield

Engineer

Medford

At Home

Reading

Millman

Reading

Bookkeeper

Reading

Painter

Haverhill

Nurse

Reading

Barber

Reading

At Home

Reading

Mechanic

Reading

Hairdresser

Malden

Truckman

Reading

Domestic

Somerville

Tel. Cableman

Reading

Stenographer

Stoneham

Plumbing & Heating

Contractor

Dorchester

Stenographer

Reading

Inspector

Watertown

Secretary

Watertown

Asst. Sales Manager

Reading

Typist

Reading

Merchant

Reading

At Home

Reading

Farmer

Fryeburg, Maine

Teacher

Reading

Clerk

Stoneham

At Home

Reading

Machinist

Beverly

MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928

Date Names

Age

Occupation

Residence

Catherine Annie Meuse

At Home

Reading

Lawrence Drake Harvey

Broker New Haven, Conn.

Emelie Marie Kramp

At Home New Haven, Conn.

Braman Boyd Platts

Chemist

Reading

Miriam Loring

At Home

Reading

Leo E. Croteau

Teacher South

Hero, Vt.

Helen G. Quinlan

Teacher

Reading

Frederick D. Sperry

Furniture Dealer

Reading

Katherine L. Remick

At Home Concord, N. H.

Alexander Payne Stewart

B. & M. R. R. Signal Dept. Reading

Rose Meuse

Housework

Reading

Donald C. Streever

Merchant Ballston

Spa, N. Y.

Doris M. Temple

July

At Home

Reading

Dominick Zanni

Contractor

Reading

Marie Fulgoni

Millhand

Boston

Harry A. Jackson

Draughtsman

Lynn

Dicah J. Reville

At Home

Lynn

George Albert White

Garage Erector

Reading

Phyllis Kimball Wiggin

At Home

Stoneham

Michael Ernest Hardy

Electrical Mach. Glace

Bay, N. S.

Dana Patricia McMillan

Registered Nurse

Reading

Walter William Foley

Millhand

Wakefield

Estelle Mary LeFave

At Home

Reading

Charles Burleigh Horton

Treasurer

^Reading

Mildred Florence Ellis

Interior Decorator

Swampscott

William Frederick Turner

Clerk

Stoneham

Gertrude Evangeline Surette

Aug.

At Home

Reading

Sidney Knowles Hcrton

Salesman

Reading

Zelma Cloutier

Stenographer

Boston

Herbert Claude Towle

Asst. Purchasing Agent

Reading

Helen May Hamilton

Bookkeeper

Salem

Arthur Thomas Griffiths
Marton Hortense (Surette)

Carpenter

Reading

Brown

Nurse

Reading

Russell Willis Davis

Bond Salesman

Reading

Winonah Grindle Nay

Clerk

Belmont

Jacob Menovich

Shipper

Reading

Fannie Cheifitz

Clerk

Wilmington

MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928

Date Names

Age

Occupation

Residence

Simon Muise

W oodworker

Reading

Sarah Doucette

Housework

Reading

Edward John Hennesey

Leather Worker

No. Reading

Gertrude Johanna Mattison

Stenographer

No. Reading

Neil Cooley Robinson

Clerk

Arlington

Marion Ruth Starke

Teacher

Reading

Charles Peterson

Retired

Reading

Alma (Lofgren) Thenser

At Home

Reading

Sept.

Salvatore Palumbo

Fruit Business

Wakefield

Margaret Marie Baker

At Home

Malden

Martin Wilfred Beaudreau

Plumber’s Helper

Arlington

Corinne Jeannette Melanson

Finisher

Reading

Martin Joseph Kinnane

Manager

Reading

Mary Frances Rogers

Stitcher

Winchester

Harold Melanson

Shoe Worker

• Reading

Helen Joyce

Clerk

Chelsea

William Henry Becker

Salesman

Reading

Frederica Lucy Knight

Housework

Reading

Philip Elwin George

Mechanic

Reading

Mildred (Cahoon) Luetters

Waitress

Newburyport

Philip Augustus Nelles, Jr.

Mechanical Engineer

Lexington

Mary Alice Boley

Housekeeper

Reading

Roger Marvin Blood

Chemist

Reading

Margaret Frances Cochrane

Secretary

Lexington

Gerald Edward Fitzgerald

P. 0. Clerk

Reading

Margaret Ann Curtis

Sales Clerk

Charlestown

Charles Francis Parrett

M'erehant

Reading

Ruth Lord Reeves

Clerk

Reading

Louis Edward Millett

Machinist

Reading

Josephine DeMarco

Millhand

Wakefield

Benjamin Franklin Murphy

Compositor

Reading

Mildred Louise Curtis

Bookkeeper

Reading

Stephen Everett Farrer

Laborer

Reading

Cora Publicover

•2:4

Maid

Reading

Thomas J. Carroll

Chauffeur

Boston

Helen J. McCarthy

Housework

Reading

Frank Cyril Lewis

Farmer Townshend, Vt.

Anna Lois Boynton

Teacher

Pepperell

Charles Nichols Chase

Florist

Reading

Evelyn Cornelia Anderson

Stenographer

Reading

MARRIAGES REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR 1928

Date Names

Age

Occupation

Residence

Robert Gaw

Operator

Reading

Lottie R. (Horne) Zwieker

Teacher

Reading

William Andrew Herbolzheimer 25

(Insurance Salesman Reading

Hattie Anna Geweniger

Payroll Clerk

Malden

Gordon Graham Stewart

Milk Foreman

Wakefield

Hazel May Grafts

Pianist

Reading

Oet.

Charles Proven Deyarmend

Iceman

Melrose

Harriett Isabelle Wentzell

Teacher

Melrose

Lawrence Fairman Southwick

Clerk

Reading

Frances Ellen Symonds

At Home

Reading

Roy McKinley Hughes

Submarine Service

Woodstock, Ga.

Anona Lucia Stafford

At Home

Reading

Herbert Elwin Mosher

Salesman

Reading

Frances Margaret Wilson

Asst. Bookkeeper

Reading

Richard Abbott Bean

Civil Engineer

Everett

Susan Dorothea Soule

Musician

Reading

Edward Anthony Ryan

Asst. Sales Manager Medford

Nov

Gladys Bearse Horton

At Home

Reading

George Franklin Pierce

Secretary

Dalton

Marion Louise Burns

At Home

Pittsfield

Donald Jonathan MacDonald

Mdse. Manager

Providence, R. I.

Rita Sinclair Chamberlain

Clerk

Reading

Joseph Hildebert Doucette

Millhand

Reading

Julia Annie Doucette

Tailor ess

Reading

Charles S. Hamilton

Carpenter

Middleton

Rebecca McLaughlin

At Home

Middleton

Frank W. Young

Tailor

Reading

Florence (Parker) Atwood

Dec.

At Home

Reading

Clarence Earl Nutter

Mechanic

No. Reading

Dorothy Winifred Mcdintock

Stenographer

Reading

George Frederick Malcolm

Importer

Harrison, Maine

Jennie May Clark

At Home

Reading

Joseph Collins Brown

Carpenter

Reading

Florence Nellie Irving

Housekeeper

Reading

DEATHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR OF 1928

Date Name

Cause of Death

Jan.

George F. Harrow

—

Bright’s Disease

Edward F. Clancy

Cancer

Annie M. Morrison

Tuberculosis

Annie R. Moran

Myocarditis

Anna M. Cederberg

Arterio Sclerosis

Johanna Hurley

Pneumonia

William MacDonald

Arterio Sclerosis

Mary Gabriel

—

Heart Disease

Sarah. E. Wilkinson

—

Gangrene

Natalie Elizabeth Davis

Malformation

Mary Louise Doucette

—

Uraemia

Arthur E. Baker

—

Hemorrhage

Charles E. Stickney

Carcinoma

Charles S. Chadbourne

Myocarditis

Feb.

Ellen M. Bancroft

Heart Disease

Lawrence Haven

—

Arterio Sclerosis

Ward C. Mansfield

Angina Pectoris

Charles L. Channell

Carcinoma

William H. Kingman

Arterio Sclerosis

William E. Williams

Uraemia

Charles F. Mjyers

Myocarditis

Lydia Maria Howard

Bronchitis

Mar.

Patrick J. Flynn

. —

—

Accidental Fall

George A. Getchell

Angina Pectoris

Elizabeth Grant

—

Cancer

Johanna Leary

—

Myocarditis

Emil A. Frotten

—

Perforation of Oesophagus

John H. Grant

Cancer

Henry House McDonough

Cardio Vascular Disease

Charles E. Gentner

Hemorrhage

Harriet C. Goodhue

Myocarditis

Adelaide R. Weston

Diarrhoea

Lillian Williams

Septicemia

Ella F. Studley

Heart Disease

Lillian G. Campbell

Apoplexy

Mabel L. Nutter

Tumor

DEATHS REGISTERED IN' TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR OF 1928

Date Name

Cause of Death

Mary J. Reed

Cholecystitis

Zelpha Thayer

Gastritis

Annie L. Brown

Thrombosis

Apr.

Anna M. Higgins

Angina Pectoris

Alfred Jackson Wig gin

Myocarditis

Edward F. Whitton

—

Hemiphlegia

Charles C. Wright

Pneumonia

Herbert H. Roberts

Hemorrhage

Edward P. Nostrand

—

Dilatation of Heart

Mary A. (Johnson) Gowing

—

Erysipelas

Ellen Yermille

Myocarditis

Nancy Fuller

Intestinal Obstruction

Emma S. Knowles

Arteric Sclerosis

Margaret A. Buxton

Bronchitis

Arthur E. Day

Hemorrhage

John J. Timmerman

—

Hodgkins Disease

May

Mary S. J. Lane

Myocarditis

Philip H. Reilly

—

Carcinoma

William R. Livingston

Heart Disease

James A. J. Brady

Carcinoma

Mary F. Bartlett

Hemorrhage

George A. Sargent

Heart Disease

Solomon Davis

Myocarditis

Emily S. Wooldridge

Apoplexy

Edward Wright

Pneumonia

Elmer G. Legro

—

Cirrhosis

Margaret Sullivan

—

Myocarditis

June

David W. Pratt

Angina Pectoris

Hobart H. Crowell

Pleurisy

Susan K. Barr

Angina Pectoris

Hattie Marie Cady

Cardiac Dilatation

George E. Sears

Angina Pectoris

William B. Randall

Nephritis

Eliza Walker Ferguson

Carcinoma

George P. Abbott

Pneumonia

DEATHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR OF 1928

Date Name Y M D Cause of Death

July

George F. Wadsworth

• Pneumonia

Melvina B. Parker

—

Hemorrhage

Daniel E. Ellis

Hemorrhage

Caroline A. Badger

Nephritis

William J. Lawn

Sepsis

Henry J. Wilson

Dementia Paralytica

Richard Rogers

Syphilis

Aug.

Jane H. Aymar

Carcinoma

Sarah Priest

Myocarditis

John A. McDavitt

—

Nephritis

Harlan J. Hook

Appendicitis

Lydia J. Milne

Myocarditis

Eleanor May Runge

Infection

Ella L. Gaw

Syncope

Marie Asnault

Diarrhoea

William B. Laxton

—

Carcinoma

Sept.

Judson P. Cook

Abscess

Willis Norton Kimball

Hemorrhage

Varter Dagdigian

Angina Pectoris

Mary McGrath

100

—

Arterio Sclerosis

Ida B. Tilton

Carcinoma

Stewart S. Bell

Angina Pectoris

Florence Hanson Spear

Septicemia

Charles F. Doughty

Tuberculosis

Oct.

Albert J. Francis

Hemorrhage

Harrison H. Parker

Heart Disease

Edward T. Wall

—

Bullet Wound

Bessie W. Mouser

—

Pneumonia

Charles F. Hayes

Tuberculosis

Belle L. Ruggles

Carcinoma

Frank P. Hobby

Heart Disease

Sadie Richardson

Embolus

Martha Ella Currier

Cholecystitis

DEATHS REGISTERED IN TOWN OF READING FOR YEAR OF 1928

Date Name

Cause of Death

Anna Rhoda Niles

—

Hemorrhage

31 Charles F. Ranney
Nov.

Pneumonia

Margaret Perkins

—

Pneumonia

Sylvia Muse

—

Myocarditis

Sarah S. Arzigian

—

Carcinoma

Jean Whitcomb

- 5

Hours. Malformation

Lorie F. Porter

—

Alcoholism

David A. Childs, Jr.

Pneumonia

30 Charlotte E. Ferguson.
Dec.

Fracture of Hip

Sarah J. Tufts

Apoplexy

Winifred Hackett

—

Pneumonia

Jennie Mackie

—

Oedema

Elizabeth Doucette

—

Peritonitis

Horace S. Blake

—

Arterio Sclerosis

Herman J. Dissele

Cardiac Dilatation

Anne Louisa Smith

Myocarditis

William J. St. Louis

Myocarditis

Janet B. Bancroft

—

Heart Disease

James 0. Carter

—

Apoplexy.

REPORT OF SELECTMEN AND BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE

To the Citizens of Reading:

We herewith submit the annual report of the Boards of Selectmen
and Public Welfare:

The first meeting following the annual election was held March 9,
1928, and organization was as follows: Elias B. Currell, Chairman; Chariest
S. Hasty, Secretary; Charles. F. Trevor. L. G. Bent was appointed Clerk.
Miss Helen A. Brown was appointed Visitor for Welfare Board.

Regular weekly meetings and sixteen special meetings were held
during the year.

Seven hearings were held on applications for gasoline permits, four
of which were for increased capacity, three for filling stations, one of which
was granted and two were refused. One hearing was held for a garage and
one for a two story building. Seven Second-hand Motor Vehicle licenses,
seven Amusement licenses, two Bus licenses, two Bowling Alley and Pool
Room licenses, one Theatre license, four Peddler's licenses, two Auctioneer 's
licenses, one Inn-holder license, one 3rd class Liquor license, forty-six Re-
volver licenses, eleven transfers, thirty-five Lord's Day licenses, twenty-
nine Victualer's licenses, six Taxicab licenses, two Junk Dealer’s licenses,
twenty-three Express & Trucking licenses were also granted.

A new traffic booth was installed in Reading Square during the month
of August, 1928 giving the traffic officer on duty there improved weather
protection. This was sanctioned by the State Board of Public Works who
had previously requested that every municipality in the Commonwealth co-
operate with it relative to any changes in traffic regulation.

The following were made one way streets: Haven Street between
Linden Street and Main Street, Gould Street from Haven Street to Ash
Street and Ash Street from Gould Street to Main Street, (Post Office Sq.)
for the purpose of eliminating the hazardous traffic congestion on Haven
Street west of Main Street and on Ash Street to Gould Street.

For the betterment of traffic conditions the traffic beacon formerly
located at the junction of Haven and Main Streets was removed to Frank-
lin Street near North Main Street, and the one formerly located at the
junction of Middlesex Avenue and Lowell Street was removed to the corner
of Bancroft Avenue and Lowell Street.

We would recommend that the male dependents of the Town be privi-
leged to work on the dumps under a supervisor and compensated for the work
done, relieving the Welfare expenditure during periods of unemployment.

It is necessary that the Town expend two thousand dollars ($2000.00)
to repair the Richardson House or its use will have to be discontinued, and
we have asked for an appropriation for repairs.

As the Town Farm is no longer needed, apparently, we reeommend
that the property he disposed of.

For many years the Chief of the Fire Department has been operating
his personal auto in town business, he standing the majority of the ex-
pense. The ToAvn has developed to a point where we recommend that the
purchase of a new Fire Chief’s car as a necessary addition to our Fire
Department equipment.

Owing to the rapid growth of new buildings especially on the west
side of the Town we feel that more adequate fire protection is needed for
that section and recommend the purchase of a triple combination pumping
engine for the Central Fire Station and the transfer of the Seagrave truck
to the Woburn Street House No. 2.

As the report of the Visitor so fully covers the work and problems
of the Public Welfare Board, we submit the Visitor’s report as the report
of the Board.

Respectfully submitted,

ELIAS B. CURRELL, Chairman.
CHARLES S. HASTY, Secretary.
CHARLES F. TREVOR,

Board of Selectmen and Public Welfare.

ANNUAL REPORT OF VISITOR

To the Board of Public Welfare:

I herewith submit my report for the year 1928.

The work of this department has increased during the year, there
being more applications for aid than last year. Illness and lack of work
Avere the principal causes for need of help, although there are some eases
in which it is more difficult to determine the cause. In all cases, we
have tried as much as possible to make the parents realize their responsi-
bility of supporting their families. It is necessary to keep in mind that
in all eases children must be cared for, and as they are in no Avay responsi-
ble for their circumstances, they must be given proper food and protection,
for the welfare of the community.

The total number of persons aided was 165 ; 60 adults and 105 child-
ren. Mother’s Aid cases increased from two last year to five this year. In
these one third of the amount spent is reimbursed by the State. Nine new
cases applied for aid, and of these two were aided for a short time only, and
have been closed. In nine cases, five of which are still receiving aid, there
was no settlement, and the whole amount is reimbursed by the State. A
total of tAvelve cases were discharged during the year leaving 21 families

now being aided, and 10 single persons being boarded or receiving a small
amount of cash aid.

The visitor recorded 440 calls made in the homes, besides several
visits at hospitals. Much time has been given to grocery orders, helping
the families get the most nourishing food for the children. Milk, coal
and rent bills have been approved as usual. Encouragement has been given
to all members of families to work when able. In very few cases has the
aid been more than partial.

Newr families have been recorded in the Confidential Exchange in
Boston. The advantage of this is that many times a family coming here
from another city or town, may be known by different organizations or
hospitals who can give us valuable information in regard to the history-
of the family. We would be glad to have the various Reading organizations
also register with us any aid they may give to different families, so that.
. we may ascertain that the work is not duplicated.

We wish to extend thanks to the Social Service Committee of .the’
Visiting Nurse Association, for sending out bountiful Thanksgiving din-
ners, donated by the children of the Public Schools. Also to the organisa-
tions who kindly gave Christmas dinners to many families wdiere they; were
much appreciated. A happy Christmas was given by several individuals
to several families in need. We wish to extend thanks to these kind friends,
and also to the Board of Trade, and the members of the College Club, f or
donations, and to the Visiting Nurse for her assistance, and other friends
for the use of their cars in distributing gifts. Altogether with the help
of these kind friends about 140 children were remembered with useful gifts
and toys.

The cooperation of the School Nurse, Attendance Officers, Grrtodt
Health Committee, and the Visiting Nurse, is a great help and infijeli ap-
preciated. Many problems come up, in which it is better to have the ad-
vice of others wTho are dealing with the same families.

The Visitor is grateful to the members of the Board and to Mr.
Bent, the clerk of the Board, for their continued interest and help at allJ
times. ?1>

Respectfully submitted, *

HELEN A. BROWN, Visitor.

REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF PLUMBING

To the Board of Health:

Gentlemen : — I herewith submit my report for the year ending
December 31, 1928.

Number of permits granted, 144.

Number of fixtures installed, 576 — Bath tubs, 102; Lavatories,
107; Closets, 130; Sinks, 118; Wash Trays, 115; Showers, 4; Total, 576.

Respectfully submitted,

DAVID TAGGART,

’ Inspector of Plumbing.

REPORT OF CHIEF OF POLICE

.To the Honorable, Board of Selectmen:

Gentlemen: — I herewith submit the annual report of the Police De-
partment of the Town of Reading for the year ending December 31, 1928.

Arrests for the year 1928
Total number of arrests for the year 1928 — 396

Males, 388; Females, 8; Residents, 94; Non-Residents, 302; American
born, 322'; Foreign bom, 74; Adults, 349; Miners, 47.

Causes of Arrests

Larceny, 13; Assault and battery, 7; Assault with entent to rape, 7;
Arson, 2 ; Drunkenness, 103 ; Disturbance, 3 ; Damage to property, 5 ; Keep-
ing and exposing liquor for sale, 7 ; Illegal transportation liquor, 9 ; Oapias, 5 ;
Arrested for out Town officers, 5; Non support, 5; Driving under influence
of liquor, 40; Violation of the Automobile Law, 152; Non payment of
wages, 5; Delinquents, 10; Adultery, 3; Bastardy, 3; Evading car fare, 1;
State Hospital, Tewksbury, 3; Throwing glass in public highway, 1; Poe
session of narcotic drugs, 1; Drug addict, 1.

Disposition of cases in Court

Fined, 196; Released, 29; On file, 65; Probation, 13; State Hospital,
1; Discharge, 14; Turned over to out Town officers, 20; Middlesex train-
ing school, 4; Suspended sentence, 6; Held for Grand Jury, 20; Appealed,
5 ; House of correction, 4 ; House of Correction suspended, 8 ; State Hospi-
tal, Tewksbury, 3 ; State Farm, Bridgewater, 2 ; Defaulted, 4 ; Continued
cases, 3.

Miscellaneous

Automobile aceid'ents, 231; Cases investigated, 244; Defective streets
and sidewalks reported, 9; Guarding Mail, 96; Guarding Pay rolls, 81; Lost
children returned to parents, 12; Buildings found open and secured, 59> ;
Street lights out and reported, 35; Dogs killed by officers, 34; Dogs killed
by automobiles, 17; Automobiles reported stolen by out Town officers, 76;
Windows found open and secured, 13; Dogs found and returned1 to owners,
7 ; Summons served for out Town officers, 91 ; Police Ambulance to hospitals,
25; Wires found down and reported, 9; Dead bodies taken care of, 2;
Vacated houses and special attention asked, 23; Property left outside stores
and brought to station value, $100.00; Property reported lost, found and
returned, $275.00; Property reported stolen, $2,500.00; Property recovered,
$1,800.00; Automobiles transfer through the police, 245.

Amount of Fines Imposed by Court

1 at $3.00 each, $3.00; 59 at $5.00 each, $295.00; 82 at $10.00 each,
$820.00; 5 at $15.00 each, $75.00; 7 at $20.00 each, $140.00; 2 at $25.00

each, $50.00; 4 at $30.00 each, $120.00; 2 at $35.00 each, $70.00; 19 at
$50.90 each, $950.00; 2 at $75.00 each, $150.00; 4 at $100.00 each, $400.00.

Conclusion

At this time I wish to thank the Honorable Board of Selectmen, the
judges and officers of our District Court, our local press, and all others
who have assisted in promoting the welfare of this department ; also all
members of the force for what they have done to make our Town safe and

sane.

Respectfully yours,

JEREMIAH CULL INANE,

Chief of Police.

REPORT OF CHIEF OF FIRE DEPARTMENT

To the Honorable, Board of Selectmen:

Gentlemen :

The annual report of the Fire Department is herewith submitted
giving the record of fires that have occurred during the year ending) Decem-
ber 31, 1928 together with such information as I think may be of interest

to the town.

Finances

My financial transactions are all embodied in the report of the Town
Accountant to which I would respectfully refer you for any information
you may desire in that line.

Manual Force

The Department consists of nine (9) permanent men (including the
Chief) and twenty -one call men.

Apparatus and Equipment

The Department has five pieces of motor apparatus, four of which
are at the Central Fire Station, as follows: one Knox triple combination of
600 gallons per minute capacity which was purchased in 1913; one Sea-
grave combination equipped with a booster tank, of 400 gallons per minute
capacity which was purchased in 1926; one Robinson combination service
ladder truck in which a White motor has been installed! purchased in 1916;
and one Simplex single tank combination which wasl built by the permanent
force and equipped for grass and brush fires. This machine was placed in
service in 1923. At Hose No. 2> station on Woburn street there is a Ford
hose truck which was placed in service in 1919.

Although the trucks are all in good condition at the present time the
Emcx machine is fifteen years old and the Ford truck at' Hose No. 2 station
has become inadequate for the service it must render.

Recommendations

I would recommend the expenditure of $8750.00 for the purchase
of a 600 gallon triple combination tc be installed at the Central Fire Sta-
tion and the 400 gallon machine installed at Hose No. 2 station. As this
matter has the endorsement cf a large number of our citizens I would ask
it’s united support of your board, I also recommend a salary increase for
the permanent members of my department this year.

In the very near future the town must purchase a new fire alarm
system. Both central office and old street boxes must be replaced. As
this will cost a ratheV large amount of money I would recommend that you
give this some study this year. As we have received twenty-one (21) false
alarms this year I recommend that the town vote to pay a reward for in-
formation leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone sounding a false
alarm.

Fire Prevention

I have issued 642 permits for fires out of doors, 23 permits for the
installation of oil burning equipment, 7 permits for the sale of fireworks, 4
permits fcr the transportation of explosives and 2 blasting permits. The
members of the permanent force and myself have made monthly inspections
of all mercantile establishments and have inspected garages bi-weekly.

Record of Alarms

Month Bell Still Total

January 8 18 26

February - 3 8 11

March ! . 10 24 34

April 21 47 68

May 3 19 24

June 7 12 19

July 17 15 32

August 7 6 13

September ..... j .. . 2 8 10

October 11 24 35

November 9 36 45

December 4 20 24

Total 104 237 341

Miles traveled 1193.4

Number of feet of 2% in. hose laid 14,100

Number cf feet of 1% in. hose laid . .... 9,000

Number of feet of chemical hose used ... 6,000

Number of feet of ladders raised 652

Gallons of chemical used 373

Gallons of gasoline used 842

Gallons of oil used) 38

Value of property in danger $199,270.00

Insurance thereon 163,511.00

Loss thereto 21,393.00

Insurance paid thereon 17,079.00

Uninsured loss 4,314.00

Conclusion

In concluding, I wish to extend to your Honorable Board, the Town
Accountant, Treasurer and the Finance Committee, my thanks for the
courtesies and co-operation I have received during the year. I wish to
compliment the officers and members of the department on the prompt and
efficient manner in which they have performed their duties. I also wish tp ,
express my thanks to the Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company
for the use of current, to the Chief of Police for the services rendered by
his department at fires and to the employees of the New England Telephone
and Telegraph Company for prompt and efficient service rendered in re-
ceiving alarms by telephone.

Respectfully submitted,

ORVILLE O. ORDWAY,

Chief of Fire Deartment.

REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF FIRE ALARM

To the Board of Fire Engineers:

Gentlemen : — The following is the report of the Superintendent
of Fire Alarm for the year ending December 31, 1928.

There have been many minor repairs made this year and some
of the overhead construction rebuilt. There is some overhead con-
struction to be rebuilt the coming year. North Main and Mill Streets
are now being rebuilt.

Three new boxes which were purchased last year have been
installed,

123 Green Street east of High.

217 West and Howard.

252 Longview Road near Prospect.

Box 212 was moved from the corner of West and Howard Streets
and placed at the corner of Prescott Street and Sunnyside Avenue.

A temporary fire alarm box has been placed at the east side of the
Mineral Street bridge until the new bridge is completed.

A 15 inch gong has been placed in the Hose 2 Station.

The whistle has been placed on a separate circuit which is an
improvement over having it on a box circuit.

It will be necessary to move the fire alarm headquarters from
the non-fire proof location in the attic of the Central Fire Station to
a fire proof location with equipment to replace the antiquated over-
loaded apparatus now in use. This should be done as soon as possible.

There is great need of additional fire alarm boxes as the town
is out-growing its fire alarm system.

All school buildings should be . protected with the master type
of fire alarm boxes as is the W. S. Parker Junior High School. With
this type of box sounding the bell to notify the pupils of a fire will
operate the fire alarm box on the building.

I wish to thank all who have assisted this department.

FIRE ALARM

112 Woburn and Sanborn.

113 Woburn and Bancroft Ave.

114 Mt. Vernon and Chute.

115 Woburn and High.

12 Central Fire Station.

121 Main and Haven.

122 Haven and Gould

123 Green east of High.

13 Ash and Avon.

14 Oak and Hill Crest Rd.

141 Howard and Hill Crest Rd.

15 Summer Ave. and Walnut.

16 So. Main and South.

17 Prescott and Arlington.

18 Minot and Park Ave.

19 Walnut and Curtis.

21 Temple and Summer Ave.

212 Prescott and Sunnyside Ave.

213 Pratt and Fairview Ave.

217 West and Howard.

221 Union St. School. (Private)

223 Center School.

224 High School. (Private)

225 Highland School. (Private)

226 Lowell St. School.

227 Prospect St. School.

228 Chestnut Hill School.

23 Woburn and Temple.

231 West beyond Longwood Rd.

232 Junior High School.

24 Mineral and Hancock.

242 Summer Ave. and Woodbine.

25 Prospect near King.

252 Longview Rd. near Prospect.

26 Hose 2 house, Woburn St.

262 Berkeley and Freemont.

27 Summer Ave. near Prescott.

28 West and County Rd.

29 West and King.

31 Lowell, Grove and Willow.

312 Lowell and Dustin.

32 Franklin beyond Grove.

33 Lowell, Grand and Gould Ave.

34 Grove and Forest.

35 No. Main, Locust and Federal.

36 No. Main and Ridge Rd.

37 No. Main front of No. 409.

38 No. Main and Forest.

381 Forest near Colburn Rd.

39 No. Main and Franklin.

392 No. Main and Mill.

41 Village and Green.

412 Boston Stove Foundry.

414 Green and Beech.

42 Haven and John.

422 Eaton and Pleasant.

43 Salem and John.

44 Salem and Pearl.

442 Orange and Pierce.

45 Salem and Belmont.

452 Salem and Libby Ave.

46 Charles and Pearl.

47 Charles and Haverhill.

48 Bay State Rd.

*482 Old Fair Grounds, Salem.

*485 Rifle Range, Haverhill.

51 Main, Ash and Washington.

53 So. Main near Cross.

54 Ash and Cross.

55 Reading Rubber Mills.

6 C. H. Bangs Co. (Private)

61 Lowell and Sanborn.

611 Home for Aged Women. (Private)

612 Bancroft Ave. and Locust.

614 Auburn and Park.

• 62 Spare box.

63 Hanscom Ave. near Weston Ave.

642 Vine and Vale Rd.

65 Middlesex Ave. and Bancroft Ave.

67 Middlesex Ave. and High.

* 8 Out of Town.

* 81 Call to Wakefield.

* 82 North Reading State Sanatorium.

Special Signals
2 Recall.

2 Test, 7.45 a. m. and 5.45 p. m.

3 and a box, Second Alarm.

3 Followed in one minute by 3, Boy Scout Call.

4 and a box, Third Alarm.

4 blows, Police Call.

22 No School Signal.

* Transmitter Boxes, can be sounded only from
Central Fire Station.

Telephone, Central Fire Station Reading 0430
Respectfully submitted.

HUGH L. FAMES, Supt. of Fire Alarm.

REPORT OF FOREST WARDEN

To the Honorable, Board of Selectmen:

Gentlemen :

The annual report of the Forest Warden is herewith submitted for
the year ending December 31, 1928.

The financial transactions of the department are embodied in the
report of the Town Accountant, to which I refer you for any information
along this line.

The following deputies were appointed by me and approved by the
State Forest Warden: Henry M. Donegan, 11 Federal St., Hugh L. Eames
and John J. O’Brien, Central Fire Station.

Combination C. is used for grass and brush fires. This machine is
equipped with 1200 feet of lMs inch hose as well as brooms and extingUish-
ers. I purchased 1000 feet of 1% inch hose for the use of this department
this year.

All woodland was posted this year. I have investigated all fires and
sent reports to the State Forest Warden.

In concluding I wish to thank all who have in any way assisted this
department during the year.

Respectfully submitted,

ORVILLE. O. ORDWAY, Forest Warden.

REPORT OF TREE WARDEN

To the Honorable, Board of Selectmen:

Gentlemen : —

The annual report of the Tree Warden is herewith submitted for the
year ending December 31, 1928.

I have removed a large number of dead trees that were considered
unsafe and have replaced them with young trees.

I also have planted about two hundred trees on the roadside in dif-
ferent sections of the town.

There are several new streets under construction at the present time;
and I intend to make tree planting on them, on all reasonable requests from
the abutters.

Respectfully submitted,

HENRY M. DONEGAN,

Tree Warden,

REPORT OF TOWN COUNSEL

To the Honorable, Law Committee of the Town of Reading, Reading, Mass.
Gentlemen :

(I beg to submit my report as Town Counsel for the year ending
December 31, 1928.

Much time has been spent in the usual routine, consultations, render-
ing of opinions, preparation of votes and papers of various sorts, among
which may be mentioned, for example, services in connection with the con-
tract and lease relative to the new building: built for the occupancy of the
Municipal Light Department, the rules and regulations of the Board of
Public Works relative to projections over highways, the revision of the con-
tract relative to transportation of school children, and an opinion to the
Board! of Selectmen relative to the jurisdiction over traffic beacons.

The construction of the new Mineral Street bridge required services
in connection with the proceedings before the County Commissioners.

■During the past year the proceedings, which had been earlier insti-
tuted in the Land Court for the foreclosure of certain tax titles, were car-
ried through to completion. These proceedings related to six parcels having
assessed values cf a total of something over $45,000. Three parcels having
a total assessed value of $2,475 were not redeemed, and the title of the

Town thereto was perfected by decree. Three parcels were redeemed, re-
sulting in the collection by the Town of back taxes, interest and costs (in
addition tc costs of the Land Court proceeding) amounting to over $10,500.

Under your supervision the claim of the heirs of Willard Bancroft
for damages due to the laying of a water pipe through land on Longwocd
Road was settled by the payment of $50.00 and a deed and release taken.

Certain claims for and against the Town arising out of the business
of the Municipal Light Department were disposed of in the ordinary course.
There is one claim pending arising from the fall of a branch of a tree al-
leged to be due to the action of lighting1 wires, but this claim has not been
made the subject of suit.

There is pending a suit by Richard M. Gutts wfith an ad damnum of
$1000 for injuries arising from an alleged defect in Salem Street. Counsel
for the plaintiff has been advised, in accordance with your instructions,
that the Town denies all liability. I

There is pending a Bill in Equity brought by William H. Killam
against the Town arising from the existence of a public sewer running
through certain premises purchased by him from the Town and to which it
derived its title through tax title foreclosure.

An important matter which has arisen during the past year is the
matter of the apportionment of the cost of the Northern Artery. Under
Statute 1924, Chapter 489, Section 3, as amended by Statute 1927, Chapter
315, Section 3, a board of three commissioners have been appointed by the
Supreme • Judicial Court to determine the proportion in which cities and
towns “specially benefited ” by this improvement shall contribute to its
cfcst. Tliis commission sent out notices, not only to the cities of Cambridge
and Somerville, in which the work is located, and to neighboring munici-
palities, but also to cities and- towns of northern Middlesex and of Essex
Counties. There have been several hearings, at which the opposition of
Essex and northern Middlesex cities and towns to being assessed for the
cost of this improvement was strongly developed, and at the last hearing
the hearings were adjourned until early in March to afford time for the
incoming legislature to qualify and restrict, if it so desired, the question
of “special benefit.’’ This is a matter of considerable importance. The
cost of the work, while the exact figures are not yet ascertainable, has
been very large, and the assessment upon the Town of a small percentage
might amount to a considerable sum.

The progress of the matter before the legislature should be followed
with care.

Respectfully submitted,

MELVILLE FULLER WESTON,

Town Counsel.

REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF WIRES

To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:

Gentlemen : — I herewith submit my report for the year ending
December 31st, 1928.

Number of inspections, 542; old buildings wired, 33; new buildings
wired, 76 ; old buildings in which the wiring is uncompleted, 3 ; new
buildings in which the wiring is uncompleted, 19 ; buildings rewired, 5 ;
number of additions to wiring, 121: electric ranges, 14; hot plates, 3;
oil burners, 15; refrigerators, 35; battery chargers, 2; water heaters, 6;
air compressors, 3; motors, 11; signs, 7; recording meters, 1; permits
given for temporary wiring, 3 ; complaints received and investigated,
14; changes ordered made to unsafe or improperly installed wiring, 38;
services to buildings cut off during fires, 2; inspections made to wiring
damaged by fire, 8; wiring condemed, 3; number of permits given to
connect services, 147 ; complaints made to State Examiners of Elec-
tricians, 7 ; hearings attended before the State Examiners of Electri-
cians, 3; electricians’ licenses revoked as result of hearings, 2; electri-
cian’s license suspended as result of hearings, 1 ; cases pending^ 1.

In general the electricians have installed wiring in a careful and
workmanlike manner. Those who have not done their work in a safe
and proper manner have been ordered to correct same and an inspection
has been made to see that this is done.

There is need of a town by-law to govern the installation of

wires.

All wiring should be reported to the Inspector of Wires by the
electrician.

The public is warned against the unlicensed and unreliable
electricians.

I wish to thank the public for their co-operation with me in
my work.

Respectfully submitted,

HUGH h. EAMES,

Inspector of Wires.

REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF BUILDINCS

To the Honorable, Board of Selectmen:

Gentlemen :

I herewith submit my report for the year ending December 31, 1928.
The building construction for the past year was as follows: 80 new
one-family dwellings at an approximate cost of $465,500.00; 32 alterations

and additions to dwellings at an approximate cost of $41,670.00.

25 new one-car garages, 20 new two -car garages. 6 alterations and
additions to garages, 5 new greenhouses, 1 new boiler house, 2 new gasoline
filling stations, 2 new showrooms, 1 new block of seven stores, 8 new poultry-
houses, 4 new road-side stands, 1 new blacksmith shop, 2 new storage sheds,
1 new barn, 1 new tool house, 12 alterations and additions to various build-
ings.

The above buildings were built at an approximate cost of $117,260.00.

The total cost of all new and remodelled buildings the past year;
amounts to approximately $624,430.00

Respectfully submitted,

A. RUSSELL BARNES,

Inspector of Buildings...

REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH

To the Citizens of Reading

There were sixty-eight (68) contagious cases reported during
the year 1928.

Scarlet Fever, 19; Chicken Pox, 7; Measles, 28; Malaria, 1;
Whooping Cough, 7; Tuberculosis, 6; Total, 68.

Number of deaths, 94 — Male, 44; Female, 50; 3 were over 90
years of age ; 18 were between 80 and 90 years ; 25 were between 70
and 80 years ; 16 were between 60 and 70 years ; 10 were between 50
and 60 years ; 3 were between 40 and 50 years ; 5 were between 30 and
40 years ; 3 were between 20 and 30 years ; 2 were between 10 and 20
years ; 2 were between 1 and 10 years ; 1 was under 1 year ; 6 still births.

Respectfully submitted,

E. M. HALLIGAN, M. D.,

C. H. PLAYDON, M. D. V.,

C. F. ATKINSON,

Board of Health.

REPORT OF THE BOARD OF APPEAL

To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:

Gentlemen Eight petitions for relief from various provisions
of the Zoning By-Law were presented to the Board of Appeal during
the year 1928, on all of which public hearings were held as required
by the By-Law.

Three of these petitions were for variation of the By-Law% to
allow use of premises for business purposes in residential zones. All

were denied.

Two petitions were for extension of non-conforming use. Both
were granted.

One petition was for the erection of private garage nearer to
the party line than than allowed by the By-Law. Granted.

One petition was for permission to construct an addition to a
residence, bringing the building wall nearer to the lot line than per-
mitted by the By-Law. Denied.

One petition was for the erection of a two apartment house,
“one over one,” in a zone restricted to two-family semi-detached

houses. Denied.

To summarize, of the eight petitions presented to the Board
during the year, three were granted, and five were denied.

There is occasionally an apparent misconception on the part of
some of the townspeople, as to the powers and authority of the Board
of Appeal. The Board under the Zoning By-Law, may grant excep-
tions to the application of the By-Laws only when denial of relief
would “involve practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship,” and (not
or) when such exceptions can be allowed “without substantially dero-
gating from the intent and purpose of the By-Laws, but not otherwise.”

Respectfully submitted,

HENRY Q. MILLETT, Chairman,
FRED L. NUTTER, Secretary,
CHARLES A. DAMON,

Board of Appeal.

REPORT OF BOARD OF ASSESSORS

To the Citizens of Reading:

We herewith submit our report on work under our jurisdiction
during the year 1928 :

Valuation of Taxable Real Estate :

Buildings, excluding land . . . $ 9,688,925.00

Land, excluding buildings 3,774,855.00

Total Taxable Real Estate $ 13,463,780.00

Taxable Personal Real Estate 1,573,345.00

Total Taxable Real and Personal Estate assessed

April 1, 1928 $ 15,037,125.00

Building increase over 1927 474,650.00

Land increase over 1927 117,465.00

Total increase on Taxable Real Estate $ 592,115.00

Increase on Personal Estate 67,861.00

Total gain on Taxable Property over 1927 $ 659,976.00

Tax on Real Estate $ 451,039.67

Tax on Personal Estate 52,712.61

Tax on Polls 5,544.00

Tax on Real Estate for Moth 967.00'

Tax on Real Estate for Sewer 2,580.57

Tax; on Real Estate for Sidewalk 177.71

Total Tax April 1, 1928 $ 513,021.56

Taxable Personal Estate assessed December 1928 $ 300.00

Taxable Real Estate assessed December, 1928 2,900.00

Additional Polls 110.00

Tax assessed as supplementary on Real Estate, Decem-
ber 1928 97.15

Tax assessed as supplementary on Personal, Estate,

December 1928 10.05

Total Taxable Personal Estate 1928 1,573,645.00

Total Taxable Real Estate, 1928 $ 13,466,680.00

Total Taxable Property, Real and Personal, 1928 $ 15,040,325.00

State Tax, 1928 18,105.00

State Highway Tax, 1928 3,469.05

County Tax, 1928 • • 19,063.77

County Tax, T. B., Rutland, 1928 2,048.37

Metropolitan Sewer Tax, 1928 12,679.35

Municipal Lighting Tax, 1928 102.89

Fire Prevention Tax, 1928 118.71

Total State and County Tax, 1928 $ 55,587.14

Total State and County Tax, 1927 59,168.85

Decrease from 1927 $ 3,581.71

Amount appropriated for Town Purposes $ 534,942.65

Amount to be paid for State Taxes 55,587.14

Amount of Overlay 3,766.49

Total Assessments, 1928 $ 594,296.28

Estimated Receipts $ 85,000.00

2772 Polls @ $2.00 5,544.00 90,544.00

Amount to be raised $ 503,752.28

Tax Rate for 1928, $33.50

Number of persons assessed on property April, 1928 3,663

Number assessed for poll only 889

Number assessed in December, 1928 3

Number additional polls 55

Total assessed on property, 1928 3,666

Total assessed on polls only, 1928 944

Total number separate assessments, 1928 4,552

Polls assessed in 1927 2,707

Polls assessed in 1928 2,8 27

Increase in polls 120

Number of horses 108

Number of cows 187

Number of neat cattle 13

Number of swine 120

Number of fowl 12,906

Number of dwellings 2,275

Number of acres of land 5,770

Value of Town property $ 1,365,810.00

Value of property exempt 537,035.00

Total non-taxable property $ 1,902,845.00

Total taxable property 15,040,325.00

Total valuation, 1928

$ 16,943,170.00

Assessors’ Report of the Survey of Land Under the Block System

We have now completed 65 plans which contain 3,393 separate

' lots.

Appropriated 1928 $ 100.00

Expended

Davis & Abbott, correcting plans, 1928 53.00

Balance $ 47.00

We would advise that the sum of five hundred dollars be
, appropriated for the coming year that the work of the Block System
be continued.

GEORGE E. HORROCKS,

J. FRED RICHARDSON,

ALVAH W. CLARK,

Board of Assessors.

REPORT OF CEMETERY TRUSTEES

The report of the Superintendent of Cemeteries, William P. Pierpont,
covering in detail the work of the Department and approved by the Trust-
ees, is appended.

Mr. Galen A. Parker, who has been a member of this Board for
thirty-eight years and has served the last thirty-six years as Chairman, re-
signed on March 30th. The Board accepted this resignation with deep re-
gret and wish to include in the records of the Town their sincere apprecia-
tion of the long and faithful service rendered by Mr. Parker.

Mr. Winthrop D. Parker was subsequently appointed to serve the un-
expired term of his father.

Owing to his removal from Reading, Mt. Chester P. Eeles resigned
November 1st from the Board and Mr. Harold F. Davis was appointed to
serve the balance of his term.

Mr. Philip H. Tirrell, who had served the Board for several years as
Secretary, was elected Chairman, and Mr. Clarence C. White was elected
Secretary.

On March 2nd, Alfred E. Goodwin resigned as Superintendent of
Cemeteries and William P. Pierpont was appointed Acting Superintendent,
and subsequently appointed Superintendent.

The terms of Winthrop D. Parker and Clarence C. White expire, and

their associates are pleased to State that they will be candidates for re-fel6c-
tion.

Most respectfully,

PHILIP H. TIRRELL, Chairman.
CLARENCE C. WHITE, Secretary.
HAROLD F. DAVIS,

FRANK LEE EDG^RLEY,

FRED L. NTJTTER,

WINTHROP D. PARKER,

Board of Cemetery Trustees..

LAUREL HILL CEMETERY REPORT 1928

Board! of Cemetery Trustees, Reading, Mass.

Gentlemen :

The regular maintenance work has been kept up during the year,
the avenues have had some repairs and Maple Avenue had a seal coat froth
the Main Street entrance to Lotus Avenue, which was much needed. ;

Forty-eight new lots have been completed, nine eight-grave loth,
eight six-grave lots, thirty-one four-grave lots and forty-three single graves,
which are all ready for sale. We have sold seventeen lots and six single
graves during the year, nearly all with perpetual care. Fourteen lots have
had perpetual care placed on them outside of the new lots sold with per-
petual care during 1928. All lots are now sold with perpetual care. We
have had ninety-one interments during the year. The Trustees voted, at
the recommendation of the State Auditors, to have all work done in the
Cemeteries prepaid.

Four stone posts were removed from the upper Main Street entrance,
which makes it much easier driving1 in or out. Several cement hydrants
and several hundred stepping stones have been placed.

The Old Cemetery on Lowell Street was mowed and cleaned up.
With additional money further improvements could be made.

The Trustees voted to set aside, for ornamental purposes only, the
plot of land at the Main Street entrance and call it “The Galen A. Parker
Oval ’’ in honor of Mr. Galen A. Parker, who served on the Board1 for thirty-
eight years. It has been graded and sowed down, and during this year
rhododendrons and shrubbery will be set out.

All the land in Laurel Hill has been developed except a portion pur-
chased from, the Clapp Estate, which will be laid out in lots this year.

This next year it will be necessary to have a new truck to replace
the one we now have, as it is beyond repair. The fence at the north side
and west side of the Cemetery should be replaced, as it is in bad condition.
A portion of Elm Avenue should be repaired, between Locust Avenue and

Oak Avenue, and a catch basin is needed at the north entrance.

The financial statement will appear in the report of the Town Ac-
countant.

Respectfully submitted,

WILLIAM P. PIERPOXT,

Superintendent.

FOREST GLEN CEMETERY REPORT 1928

Board of Cemetery Trustees, Reading:, Mass.

Gentlemen :

We have placed the markers and numbers for all the lots that have
been so far laid out, and also over three hundred stepping stones. The
iots have all been fertilized and kept mowed.

The ledge at one side of the Pearl Street entrance was removed and
the entrance graded.

During this next year the wall should be extended to the boundary
line on Forest Street, and should be capped for the preservation of the wall,
preferably with a blue stone cap. We expect to finish putting in the rest
of the stepping stones during 1929. The main entrance could be beautified
by setting out some shrubs and the appearance of the Cemetery would be
improved by a few scattered' trees.

The financial statement will appear in the report of the Town Ae-
eountant.

Respectfully submitted,

WILLIAM P. PIERPONT,

Superintendent.

CUSTODIAN OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS GRAVES

To the Honorable Board of Selectmen:

Gentlemen :

I herewith submit my annual report for the year 1928 as Custodian
of Veteran Soldiers ’ and Sailors* Graves.

One man has been employed a part of each working day, throughout
the growing season, caring for the Veterans’ lots.

During the early fall, the worker’s time was devoted to raking leaves
and regrading sunken graves.

On account of the increasing number of graves and the settling of
some of the older ones, requiring regrading, I recommend an appropriation
of $600 for 1929 in place of $500, the appropriation for 1928.

Respectfully submitted,

WALTER I. SWEETSER,
Custodian of Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Graves.

REPORT OF PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Trustees of the Public Library submit the following report
for the year ended December 31, 1928 :

ORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD
The Board organized for the year by the election of Mr. Mansfield
as Chairman and Miss Bancroft as Secretary. Standing Committees
were appointed as follows :

On Accounts : The Board of Trustees.

On Books: Mr. Mansfield, Miss Bancroft and Mrs. Lucas.

On Buildings and Grounds : Messrs. Keneely, Morton and Doughty.

On Work with Children : Miss Bancroft, Mrs. Lucas and Mr.
Keneely.

EXPENSES OF THE LIBRARY
The condensed financial statement is as follows :

Appropriation, direct tax, 1928

Salaries $ 4,230.00

Maintenance 3,200.00

Total $ 7,430.00

Other Income :

Refunds 4.81

Transfer from Special Fund 50.00

$7,484.81

Expended

Salaries: Librarian, Assistants and Janitor $ 4,207.66

Books and periodicals, including rebinding 1,993.41

Printing, stationery, etc 138.85

Fuel, light, water, sewerage 472.44

Repairs and furnishings 513.21

Miscellaneous 108.42

Total $ 7,433.99

Balance unexpended :

On Salaries $ 22.34

On Maintenance 28.48

Total $ 7,484.81

Receipts

Lost book paid for $ 4.00

Fines collected (for over detention of books) 392.64

Waste paper sold 1.90

On hand December 31, 1927 23.46

$ 422.00

Paid to Town Treasurer 422.00

Balance on hand December 31, 1928 . e 0.00

Statistics

Volumes in the Library December 31, 1927 . ..^. 14,339

Volumes bought, including duplicates and replacements:

Adult fiction 283

Adult non-fiction 254 537

Juvenile fiction 254

Juvenile non-fiction 76 330

Reference 3 870

Received by gift, Mass 11

Received by gifts, others 144 155

15,364

Withdrawn during year 498

Total number of volumes, Dec. 31, 1928 14,866

Circulation for home use, adult 37,813

Circulation for home use, Juvenile 18,833

Total 56,646

Increase over previous year 3,878

Largest monthly circulation, March 5,706

Smallest monthly circulation, August 3,963

New borrowers registered, Adult 285

New borrowers registered, Juvenile 252

Total 537

Total borrowers registered 3,068

Number of days on which Library was open 301

Average daily circulation, Adult 125

Average daily circulation, Juvenile 62

Volumes deposited in schools 317

No record is kept of the circulation of these books.

A very extended use is made of the reading and reference privi-
leges in the Main Library. Often every seat is occupied by an adult
reader.

The

following

table gives

data pertaining

to the

Library for the

past five

: years :

Volumes

Total

Population

Borrowed

No. of Bays Volumes

Expendi-

Year

April 1st

Home Use

Lib. Open

In Lib.

tures

1924

42,954

255

12,441

$4,953.29

1925

8,693

46,520

252

13,170

o,528.94

1926

50,216

290

13,880

6,800.89

1927

52,768

291

14,339

7,188.58

1928

56,646

301

14,866

7,433.99

The cost per book circulated in 1928 was 13.1 cents ; the average
for the last five years is 12.8 cents ; circulation per capita in 1928 of
5.9 books and cost per capita of about 78 cents. (The last two figures
are based on a population estimate of 9?500).

The following is in part the report of the Librarian to the Trustees:

Of the books reported withdrawn, nine were destroyed on account
of exposure to scarlet fever, one hundred and fifty-five were lost and
the rest worn out. The number lost is much larger than the number
reported lost in 1927 as it represents a gradual loss covering several
years which was discovered through a thorough checking up of some
of the more popular authors.

The Reading Grange gave fifty dollars again this year to add more
books to the Walter S. Parker collection of books for use in the
Children’s Room, so the Book-House for Children was purchased.
This is a set of nine volumes finely bound with many colored illustra-
tions which had been considered too expensive to buy for home use
but will give many children pleasure while spending their leisure
moments in the Children’s Room.

In March the Woman’s Educational Association loaned the library
a set of colored pictures of ancient European costumes which were
exhibited in the reading room for several wTeeks.

In June one hundred and two certificates were presented to pupils
at the Highland School who had read and reported on five books
on the State Reading List, and twenty-four honor certificates to those
who had reported on twenty books.

The work of reclassifying the old non-fiction by the decimal
system has been continued. All the mythology, garden and bird books
with miscellaneous others have been reclassified but there are still
many volumes of biography and travel to do. Progress is necessarily
slow as this work can only be done after the regular routine is
finished, and besides the cataloging it involves a good deal of shifting

of books to keep them in the proper order and moving some of the
little used books to the basement. The additional shelves put in the
basement in the summer have been a great help in relieving some of
the congestion in the main room.

During the year a new postal rate on books loaned by one library
to another has been passed. To get this much cheaper rate it is
necessary to make application through the local postmaster to Wash-
ington and such application has been made for the Reading Library.

One effect of this reduced rate has been to increase the number
of inter-library loans. The Division of Public Libraries offered in
the fall to lend books or give information as to what library could
supply the needed books and sent a poster which advertised this
assistance. To satisfy some demands for books of non-fiction the
library does not own and avoids buying books w’hich might not be
wanted after the first borrower had returned them the library
has borrowed from the Division of Public Libraries three books ;
from the Boston Public Library two books ; The Boston Medical
Library one book ; Wakefield two books and one magazine, and
Stoneham one book. The library has in turn been glad to lend to
Wakefield one book and Stoneham four books and one magazine.

In the main the work of the library has gone on much as usual.
The circulation for home use shows an increase which keeps pace
with the growth of the town. For the reference work which con-
sumes much time and is an important part of the library’s usefulness
there are no figures to show how much has been done but the fact
that twice in the fall the seating capacity of the reading rooms was
not sufficient for those who wanted to read or study shows there has
been a substantial increase.

In September Mrs. Hilchey wffio had had charge of the Children’s
Room since it wTas opened in 1926, left town and in October her place
was filled by Miss Rebecca Turner wrho had done some substitute work
in the library and could carry on the work without further instruction,
and has done so satisfactorily.

State Certificate* for Reading

The children in the intermediate grades took a great interest last
year in working for the state certificates for reading. During a big
assembly in the hall of the Highland School last June the chairman of
the library trustees, gave out one hundred and twenty-six certificates.
Not one of these can stand for less than five books read and many of
the pupils had read as many as a hundred. Before a child gets a
certificate he must sit down in the presence of an examiner and pass
a written test to prove that he not only has read the books listed but
knows something about each one.

One of the great duties of the public schools is to give the child
the kind of training that will enable him to use his leisure time to

secure the greatest amount of good to himself and society. The man
who loves good books is never at a loss for entertainment. In this
important work the librarians are rendering invaluable assistance. In
no department of public service is Reading expending money to a
better purpose than in the children’s department of the public library.

Maintenance

During 1928 new window shades were installed in the Main Library
Room and the plaster ceiling of the storage room wTas reinforced.
Steel stacks of a capacity of about 2,000 volumes were installed in the
storage room. The use of this additional shelving has relieved the
Main Library Room to a marked degree.

Budget for 1929

In accordance with the requirements of the General Laws, Chapter
41, Section 59, the Board of Trustees of the Reading Public Library
submit the following detailed estimates of the amounts necessary for
the proper maintenance of the Public Library for the fiscal year 1929.

Fuel, light, water, sewTer charge $ 400.00

Printing and supplies 200.00

Books, periodicals, binding, etc 2,000.00

Maintenance and Repairs 300.00

Miscellaneous Expenditure 100.00

Total maintenance $ 3,000.00

Salaries 4,500.00

Total appropriation requested $ 7,500.00

As against an appropriation in 1928 of 7,430.00

In the Maintenance Budget there is a decrease of $200.00 as
compared with the appropriation for 1928.

In the Salary Budget there is an increase of $270.00 as compared
with the appropriation granted for 1928. The salary increase is re-
quested on account of the increased hours of assistants due to the
increase in the usage of the library.

The Trustees also have under consideration the opening of the
Library additional hours during the week.

It is estimated that an income of about $350.00 will be received
during the year from the “Fine” account.

Mr. Charles F. Doughty, a trustee, died on September 29, 1928.
Mr. Doughty was first elected to the Board of Library Trustees on
March 1st, 1915. At a regular meeting of the Trustees on October 22nd,
1928 the following resolution was adopted, spread upon the records,
and a copy sent to Mrs. Doughty:

“The Trustees of the Reading Public Library wish to put on record
their sorrow on learning of the death of Mr. Charles F. Doughty, which

has occurred since their last meeting, and their appreciation of his
long and faithful service to the Library. Mr. Doughty has always
been a most congenial co-worker with all those associated with him,
and was ever ready to render any services in his power to the Library.
The Trustees have esteemed greatly his judgment in business matters
and his high ideals and* fine character. They have lost a valued mem-
ber of the Board and personal friend.”

At a joint meeting of the Selectmen and the Library Trustees
on November 30th, 1928, Mr. Harry J. Barclay, Vale Road, was elected
to fill the vacancy due to the death of Mr. Doughty until the next
annual towm meeting.

The faithful and efficient services of Miss Bertha Brown, Librarian,
and those of Miss Grace Abbott, Assistant Librarian, again merit our
appreciative acknowledgement. Mrs. Hilchey’s work in the children’s
room was done with an understanding of the needs of the children and .
the Trustees were regretful when she resigned. Her w'ork is being,
well continued by Miss Rebecca Turner.

The work of the assistants has been satisfactory and efficient.

Two vacancies in the Board of Trustees are to be filled at the
annual town meeting, the terms of Mrs. Ida C. Lucas and Harry J.
Barclay expiring.

ARTHUR N. MANSFIELD, Chairman,

RALPH S. KENEELY, Secretary Pro Tern,
JESSE W. MORTON
IDA C. LUCAS,

HARRY J. BARCLAY.

Adopted as the report of the Trustees.

Eighth Annual Report

OF THE

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS

For the year ended December 3 1

19 2 8

To the Citizens of Reading:

As required under the present system of government, the Board
of Public Works as organized in March, 1927, continued until after
the election in March, 1928, during which time the various articles
in the Town Warrant submitted by this Board to the citizens at the
town meeting were prepared. In March immediately following the
town election, the Board reorganized, electing Mr. Harry N. Brown,
Chairman, and Mr. Samuel H. Davis as Secretary, and shortly there-
after the seasonal activities got under way.

In reviewing the work of the Board for the past year, it is
believed that the most important accomplishment is that of the build-
ing of the Mineral Street Bridge. This new bridge was built at a
cost of $9,000.00 and is superior in construction to the previous bridge.
All of the timbers used in the erection of this bridge were creosoted
which should practically double the life of any wooden bridge, thus
making this bridge good for approximately twenty years. The Board
regrets that sufficient money could not have been provided to allow the
construction of a sidewalk upon the bridge.

The work of the Highway Department in the maintenance of
its Streets has been of the same high standard as heretofore. No
new construction of a permanent nature was undertaken during the
past year because of insufficient appropriation. It is hoped that during
the coming year permanent construction may be laid on some of the
principal streets and attention given to new streets recently accepted
by the Town. A new drain was constructed on Linden Street as an
extension of the town drainage system and it is hoped that a fur-
ther extension may be constructed during the coming year.

Granolithic sidewalks in the town were constructed under the
direction of this Board, and were built only where owners of property
petitioned for and stated their willingness to pay one-half the cost
of same. It is hoped this will prove the beginning of a comprehensive
sidewalk system which will eventually cause pedestrians to give up
the practice of walking in the streets, thus eliminating a potential
cause of accidents.

The water situation relative to providing additional storage
capacity continues to demand attention of the Board. The present
storage capacity is not adequate to meet the present and normal
growing needs of the Town and the addition of a million gallon storage
tank is recommended to the Board by a competent engineer as being
necessary to safeguard our present and future requirements.

The cost of sewer operation continues high without much oppor-
tunity for a reduction. The necessity of sewers in the greater part
of the town is not urgent from a health standpoint ; therefore, only
short extensions are recommended where residents express a desire
for the same.

With the parks and playgrounds of the town in a deplorable
condition, much comment is heard, always with the final conclusion
that something should be done. It is our belief also that something
should be done; first, with the parks and playgrounds now under
control of the town ; and second, by additions to the present system
in sections of the town now without any playground facilities.

A careful and systematic development of our present parks and
playgrounds should be begun at once and land for a new playground
should be acquired in the northerly section of the Town which is
rapidly developing. Any recommendations regarding parks would be
incomplete if nothing was said about our Common. It is our under-
standing that there are two movements under way for the develop-
ment of this park and the Board feels that in connection with these
improvements consideration should be given to the widening of Main
and Harnden Streets as well as a closing of a portion of Salem Street.
It is also our opinion that the placing of an obstruction in the form
of an island in the direct path of our greatest through traffic, would
be a serious mistake and result in even greater congestion in our
center as well as being the cause of many accidents.

The Town has been enjoying a healthy growth for the past
year and this growth bids fair to continue. The growth naturally de-
pends on new streets as outlets for the many new homes. This de-
velopment of new streets has caused many plans to be submitted to
the Board of Survey for their approval, this approval being granted
only after co-ordination with neighboring streets is considered; con-
ditions as shown on the plans are checked, and hearings are held as
provided by law. Street plans have been approved during the year,
many of which streets will be submitted to the Town at the annual
meeting for acceptance. Following is the superintendent’s report giving
in detail the accomplishments and expenditures of the Board.

Respectfully submitted,

HARRY N. BROWN, Chairman,
SAMUEL H. DAVIS, Secretary,
MARTIN B. HARTSHORN
MILES C. HIGGINS
HAROLD W. PUTNAM.

SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT

To the Board of Public Works:

Gentlemen: — As required by Section 4, Chapter 118, of an Act
authorizing the Town of Reading to establish a Board of Public Works,
I respectfully submit for your consideration the eighth annual report

of the Department of Public Works (Water, Highway, Sewer and
Park), including a financial report of each department, and a chronicle
of the principal work performed with recommendations for the com-
ing year.

WATER DEPARTMENT

Maintenance Account
Receipts :

Cash Balance, 1928

Meter Rates

Hydrant Rental

Service Pipe Construction

Miscellaneous Receipts

Total

Expenditures :

1. Office Maintenance :

Pay Roll $ 936.00

Supplies, Printing, Insur-
ance, etc. 1,556.56

Total $ 2,492.56

2. Pumping Station Costs :

Pay Roll $ 4,546.15

General Repairs 761.91

Supplies and Misc 3,028.20

Total $ 8,336.26

3. Filter Costs :

Pay Roll $ 2,547.82

Electric Power 510.78

Supplies, Repairs, Misc. .... 1,492.18

$ 4,432.93
42,230.44
7,875.00
2.548J17
1,241.85

$ 58,328.39

Total $ 4,550.78

4. Maintenance of Meters :

Pay Roll $ 1,301.32

Supplies and Repairs 944.10

Total $ 2,245.42

5. Maintenance of Service Pipes :

Pay Roll $ 470.82

Tools and Supplies 317.65

Total $ 788.47

'93

6. Maintenance of Main Pipes:

Pay Roll $ 1,049.25

Miscellaneous Supplies 611.21

Total

7. Maturing bonds paid from

Receipts

8. Bond Interest paid from

Receipts

9. Air Compressor Maintenance:

Electric Power $ 1,610.72

Repairs T 4.09

Total

10. Automobile Truck Maintenance :

Repairs on old Truck and
new Truck $ 1,370.54

Total

11. Shop Maintenance:

Repairs and Misc. Supplies $ 1,170.23

Total

12. Main Pipe Construction :

Pay Roll $ 827.95

Fittings and Misc. Supplies 1,175.54

Total

13. Service Pipe Construction :

Pay Roll $ 2,603.29

Pipe, Tools, and Misc.

Supplies 2,511.40

Total

14. Meter Construction :

Meters $ 1,855.58

Supplies 13.45

Total

15. Hydrants and Drinking Fountains:

Pay Roll $ 423.99

Repairs, Fittings, and Sup-
plies 1,026.00

$ 1,660.46
$ 10,000.00
$ 2,692.50

$ 1,614.81

$ 1,370.54
$ 1,170.23

$ 2,003.49

$ 5,114.69
$ 1,869.03

Total

$ 1,449.99

16. Pitometer Survey :

Pay Roll $ 558.41

Bills 2,326.93

Total $ 2,885.34

Grand Total Expenditures $ 50,244.57

Balance Cash on Hand

8,083.82

Main Pipe Extension Account :

Balance Jan. 1, 1928

5.299.22

Expended 1928 :

Pay Roll

$ 981.60

Bills

2,372.32

3,353.92

Balance

1,945.30

Aviation Sign on Standpipe Acct

Appropriation

200.00

Expended

Bills

200.00

Balance

00.00

Cost of Plant December 31, 1927 $492,162.51

Expended 1928

Maintenance Account Main Extensions $ 2,003.49
Construction Account Main Extensions 3,353.92

Meters 1,869.03

$ 7,226.44

Total Cost of Plant Dec. 31, 1928 $499,388.95

The interest for the year 1928 on serial bonds amounted to
$2,692.50 as follows :

March 15, 1928, $15,000 bonds for six months at 4% $ 300.00

May 1, 1928, $16,000 bonds for six months at 4% 320.00

(Due $2,000)

June 1, 1928, $24,000 bonds for six months at 4 % 480.00

(Due $6,000)

June 1, 1928, $15,000 bonds for six months at 4 y2% 337.50

(Due $1,000)

Sept. 15, 1928, $15,000 bonds for six months at 4 % 300.00

(Due $1,000)

Nov. 1, 1928, $14,000 bonds for six months at 4% 280.00

Dec. 1, 1928, $18,000 bonds for six months at 4 % 360.00

Dec. 1, 1928, $14,000 bonds for six months at 4}4 % 315.00

$ 2,692.50

There were $10,000 in bonds payable in 1928.

The interest for the year 1929 on serial bonds amounts to $ 2,287.50
There are $10,000.00 in bonds payable in 1929 as follows :

Principal Interest Principal Interest
March Sept.

4% Water bonds issued

Sept. 15, 1927

280.00

$1,000.00 $

280.00

4% Water bonds issued

May 1st 1927

May

.. $2,000.00

280.00

Nov.

240.00

4% Water bonds issued

June 1st, 1901

June

. . 5,000.00

200.00

Dec

100.00

4% Water bonds issued

June 1st, 1907

. r 1,000.00

160.00

140.00

4 ]/2% Water Bonds isssued
June 1st, 1917, 1918

. . 1,000.00

315.00

292.50

Totals

.. $9,000.00 $1,235.00

$1,000.00 $1,052.50

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REGISTRATION REPORT

Amount of bills (metered water) rendered in

1928 $42,632.14

Amount collected and paid Treasurer $ 42,112.04

Amount uncollected 24.85

Amount abated 495.25

$ 42,632.14 $ 42,632.14

Amount of bills (metered water) of previous

years uncollected $ 123.40

Amount collected and paid Treasurer $ 118.40

Amount uncollected

Amount abated . 5.00

$ 123.40 $ 123.40

Amount of Service Pipe Construction bills ren-
dered in 1928 $ 2,696.84

Amount of bills of previous years uncollected . . 178.88-

Amount collected and paid Treasurer $ 2,548.17

Amount uncollected 327.55

Amount abated

$ 2,875.72 $ 2,87572

Amount of Service Pipe Maintenance bills ren-
dered in 1928 $ 428.48

Amount of bills of prevous years uncollected . . 10.61

Amount collected and paid Treasurer $ 434.03

Amount uncollected 5.06

$ 439.09 $ 439.09

Amount of Main Pipe Maintenance bills ren-
dered in 1928 $ 50.00

Amount of bills of previous years uncollected.. 64.52

Amount collected and paid Treasurer $ 114.52

Amount uncollected

Amount abated

$ 114.52 $ 114.52

RAINFALL

The average rainfall for Massachusetts as deduced by the State .
Department of Health from long continued observation in various
parts of the State is 44.54- inches.

As may be seen by a table in this report showing the amount
of rainfall for the years 1900 to 1928 inclusive, the average rainfall at
the Reading Pumping Station is 40.92 inches. The rainfall this past
year was a deficiency of 3.54 inches compared with the State observa-
tions and an increase of .08 inches from our Pumping Station
observations. There was an excess of rainfall in the months of April,
June, July, August, September and October of 5.55 inches, and a de-
ficiency in the other months of 54.7 inches, comparing each month with
an average rainfall between the years 1900-1928 inclusively.

The greatest rainfall in any one day was on September 9th of
1.74 inches.

The elevation of the Reading Pumping Station is approximately
SO feet above sea level.

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January

3.31

2.17

—1.14

February

3.44

3.37

- .07

March

3.54

1.45

—2.09

April

4.02

5.13

+1.11

May

3.01

2.77

— .24

J une . . :

3.67

6.63

+2.96

July

3.51

3.65

+ -14

August

3.34

3.84

+ .50

September

3.49

4.18

+ .69

October

2.81

2.96

+ -15

November

325

228

— .97

December

2.57

— .96

40.92

41.00

+ .08

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, STATE jDEPT. OF HEALTH
WATER ANALYSIS— PARTS IN 100,000

100

KIND AND SIZE OF METERS IN USE JANUARY 1, 1929

Make

54 *»»•

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1 in.

1J4 in.

1 14 in.

2 in.

3 in.

Totals.

Nash

1141

1172

Empire

259

264

Hersey

343

373

Trident

127

Gamtra

184

186

Crown

Lambert

Union

Worthington

Pittsburg

Thompson

Columbia

Federal

Keystone

TotaL

2286

2382

YEARLY RECORD OF PUMPING STATION FROM JANUARY 1,

1928 TO JANUARY 1, 1929

Month

No.

Days

Hrs.

Min.

Gallons

Pumped

Total

Head

Pounds

Coal

Gals, to
Lb. Coal

Rain

Fall

January

380

10,122,344

219

51,339

197

2.17

February

358

9,824,022

219

54,019

182

3.37

March

386

10,599,606

219

54,888

193

1.45

April

391

11,273,724

219

55,100

205

5.13

May

402

11.751,200

219

55,597

211

2.77

June

391

11,855,130

219

57,778

205

6.63

July

405

11,705,814

219

56,171

208

3.65

August

408

11.593,926

219

56,854

204

3.84

September

362

10,565,444

219

53,071

199

4.18

October

372

11,277,404

219

57,261

197

2.96

November

344

10,381,284

219

53,022

196

2.28

December

368

10,764,810

219

56,085

192

2.57

Totals

366

4571

131,714,708

219

661,185

199

41.00

Average pumpage per day 359,876 gallons

101

TABLE SHOWING THE AMOUNT OF RAIN AND MELTED
SNOW FOR YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1928

Day of Month

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

November

December

Day of Month

.14

.01

.25

. . . .1

.04

. 05

.03

.01

1.01

.31

.....3

.51

. 10

'33

.45

.69

.17

.14

.03

.28

.04

.50

.01

.06

.02

.05

.01

.....7

.09

.67

.20

.07

.08

.24

.49

1.42

. 18

.58

.01

.oi

.08

.03

.... 10

.07

.30

.05

...11

.03

.01

... 12

.05

.44

.41

.02

...13

.07

.34

.59

.06

.01

...14.

...15

.28

.02

.05

.... 16

.40

.02

.03

.02

.04

.32

.... 17

.22

.51

.79

.04

.34

.05

... .18

.62

.56

*30

.90

1.74

.56

.27

.... 19

.31

.04

.17

...20

.64

.23

... .21

. 17

.30

.74

.02

1 41

...22

.03

. 14

1.53

... .23

.83

i07

*77

... .24

1 24

.24

.09

...25

.43

... .26

.81

.01

.04

1.25

....27

.56

.33

.36

.09

. . . :28

.05

!04

1 18

... .29

.05

.11

.35

.21

.82

...30

.05

....31

Total

2.17

3.37

1.45

5.13

' 2.77

6.63

3.65

3.84

4.18

2.96

2.28

2.57

Total

Total ,

P ‘

"to

Date

2.17

5.54

6.99

12.12

14.89

21.52

25.17

29.01

33.19

36.15

38.43

41.00

Date

102

RAINFALL AT PUMPING STATON

1900 — 1928

Year

Jan.

Feb.

Mar.

Apr.

May

June

July

Aug.

Sept.

Oct.

Nov.

Dec.

Total

1901

5.32

8.69

5.03

2.15

4.60

3.13

1.90

3.17

4.15

3.31

5.05

2.44

48.94

1902

1.33

1.08

5.88

9.59

7.21

1.74

4.65

2.66

3.59

2.76

3.06

8.10

51.65

1902

1.80

6.11

4.69

6.22

1.69

1.98

3.02

3.75

4.01

4.91

0.99

5.60

44.77

1903

3.84

3.16

6.38

4.95

0.48

8.91

3.40

3.42

2.29

3.69

1.33

2.59

44.44

1904

4.42

2.21

9.90

3.56

2.56

1.88

4.26

5.16

2.02

1.80

2.25

42.23

1905

5.44

1.47

2.92

2.59

1.39

6.11

1.19

3.30

7.87

1.20

2.22

3.72

39.42

1906

160

2.53

6.48

2.84

5.14

2.63

5.88

4.18

1.36

2.38

3.31

3.08

42.41

1907

3.97

2.10

2.40

3.21

2.89

3.80

3.58

1.33

7.90

3.36

6.83

3.60

44.97

1908

3.07

4.28

2.72

1.71

4.00

1.58

3.09

4.07

0.86

3.56

1.10

2.66

32.70

1909

4.17

5.33

3.57

3.95

1.97

2.14

3.59

2.75

3.74

1.23

4.06

3.60

40.10

1910

4.54

3.14

1.58

2.32

1.19

4.36

1.98

2.61

2.45

1.48

4.30

1.92

31.87

1911

2.25

2.94

3.12

1.89

0.67

3.43

4.79

3.80

2.94

2.91

4.14

3.57

36.45

1912

2.68

2.42

5.04

4.05

5.73

0.29

6.44

2.02

3.02

1.45

3.10

4.80

41.04

1913

2.48

2.64

4.51

3.76

3.45

0.93

1.68

3.48

3.66

7.56

2.13

3.24

39.52

1914

3.34

3.65

4.09

6.32

2.76

1.44

2.34

2.78

0.23

1.51

2.92

3.69

35.07

1915

5.52

3.54

0.00

2.72

1.68

4.60

8.76

6.66

0.70

2.80

2.93

5.47

45.38

1916

1.22

5.37

3.37

5.14

4.59

5.86

3.13

2.30

3.11

1.01

1.94

2.91

39.95

1917

2.92

2.41

4.18

2.90

4.00

4.78

1.19

3.70

1.46

5.75

1.39

2.65

37.33

1918

3.08

3.02

2.02

4.10

0.85

3.04

2.99

2.81

8.37

1.02

2.24

2.48

36.02

1919

3.24

3.61

4.01

2.46

5.44

0.88

3.22

3.83

5.65

2.63

6.20

1.53

42.7°

1920

2.75

6.46

4.21

5.75

3.27

5.24

1.94

2.02

4.27

1.16

4.67

4.82

46.56

1921

2.09

3.43

2.43

5.48

1.86

4.02

9.79

1.96

1.74

1.57

6.50

2.28

43.15

1922

1.77

2.72

4.27

1.37

5.08

11.27

4.88

3.29

3.68

2.73

1.06

3.12

45.24

1923

6.95

1.67

2.60

5.17

1.56

2.79

1.98

3.17

.82

3.63

4.13

4.83

39.30

1924

3.77

2.55

1.71

4.25

3.10

2.53

2.70

4.80

7.95

.05

2.56

1.52

37.49

1925

4.28

2.14

7.66

2.95

2.05

5.62

3.13

2.37

2.16

4.66

3.94

5.53

46.49

1926

2.53

4.41

2.83

2.24

2.19

1.80

2.08

3.30

1.32

3.95

3.89

3.08

33.62

1927

2.32

3.18

1.30

1.43

2.19

2.27

3.04

5.28

2.68

4.10

4.18

4.77

36.74

1928

2.17

3.37

1.45

5.13

2.77

6.63

3.65

3.84

4.18

2.96

2.28

2.57

41.00

Average 3.31 3.44 3.54 4.02 3.01 3.67 3.51 3.34 3.49 2.81 3.25 3.53 40.915

103

SUMMARY OF STATISTICS

For Year Ending December 31, 1928

Reading Water Department
Reading, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

General Statistics

Population by census of 1925: 8796.

Date of construction: 1890-1891.

By whom owned: Town of Reading.

Sources of Supply: Filter gallery and artesian wells.

Mode of supply: (Whether gravity or pumping): Pumping.

Builders of Pumping' Machinery: Sullivan Mch. Co., Geo. F. Blake Mfg.

Co., and Platt Iron Works.

Description of fuel used:

Kind : Coal.

Brand of coal: New River and all rail Penn.

Average price of coal per net ton delivered: $6.99.

Coal consumed for year : 661, 185 lbs.

Total pu'tnipage for year: 131,714,708 gallons with allowance for slip.
Average static head against which pumps work: 219.

Average dynamic head against which pumps work: 240.

Number of gallons pumped per pound of equivalent coal: 199.
Gallons pumped x 8.34 (lbs.) x 100 x dynamic head (240).

131,714,708 x 8.34 x 100 x 240

Duty equals equals 131,648,936.15.

Total fuel consumed 661,185. including heating.

Cost of pumping, figured on Pumping Station expenses, including filtration,
viz: $12,887.04.

Cost per million gallons pumped: $97.84.

Cost per million gallons raised one foot (dynamic) : $.407.

DISPOSITION OF BALANCE— Carried to New Account

Net cost of works Dec. 31, 1928 $499,388.95

Bonded debt, Dec. 31, 1928 60,000.00

Total cost of supplying water per million gallons figured on total mainten-
ance plus interest on bonds: $237.31.

Statistics Relating to Distributing Mains

Kind of pipe : Galv. iron and cast iron.

Sizes : From, 1-^4 inches to 12 inches.

Extended: 1,440.50 feet during year of six-inch pipe.

Total now in use: 37.86 miles of 6 inch pipe or larger.

Cost of repair per mile: $4.04.

Number of hydrants (public and private) now in use: 241.
Number of stop gates added during the year: 0.

Number of stop gates now in use: 551.

Number of stop gates smaller than 4-inch: 126.

Number of blow-offs: 13.

Range of pressure on mains: 45 lbs. to 90 lbs.

Services: •

Kind of pipe: Cast iron, galvanized iron, lead and cement lined.
Sizes: % inch to 6 inch.

Extended: 1928: 6,297.90 feet.

Discontinued 1928: 0 feet.

Total now in use: 34.25 miles.

Number of service taps added during the year: 96.

Number now in use: 2,316.

Average length of service installed in 1928 : 65.60 feet.

Average cost of service installed 1928: $53.28.

Meters :

Number of meters purchased: 139.

Number of imeters discarded: 19.

Number now in use: 2382.

Percentage of services metered: 97%%.

Number of motors and elevators added: None.

Number now in use: None. '

LOCATION OF FIRE HYDRANTS
Note: “G”— Gated

Ash Street

West side. South cor. Gould G

West side, opp. No. 50 G

West side. North cor. Avon G

West side, North cor. Cross

Auburn Street

South side. West cor. Beacon r G

South side, in front of Weston’s Greenhouse

Bancroft Avenue

West side, between Middlesex and Mt. Vernon G

West side, South cor. Middlesex Ave,
East side, South cor. Weston Rd.
East side, opposite Tower Rd.

Bay State Road

North side, West of No. 52
North side, West cor. Haverhill St.

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105

Beech Street

West side, cor. Lakeview Ave. G

Berkeley Street

West side, in front of No. 14

Brook Street

East side, South cor. Ash

Center Avenue

North side, West of No. 13 1

Deering Street

East side. South cor. Lowell G

Dudley Street

North side, West cor. Deering

Eaton Street

East side, South cor. Salem G

East side. North cor. Pleasant

East side, eor. Green G

Elliott Street

East side, North cor. Green G

Fair Road

North side, opp. house of A. H. Parsonson

Federal Street

(North side, in front of No. 35

Forest Street

North side, cor. Wells Road G

North side, cor. Van Norden Rd. G

North side, West of Stoney Brook G

North side, cor. Colburn Rd. G

North side, cor. Hurlburt Rd. G

North side, cor. Martin Rd. G

North side, East of Grove St. G

Franklin Street

North side, East cor. Pearl
North side, East of No. 159
North side, near Corton’s
North side, East of No. 279
West side, opp. No. 336
West side, North of No. 393
West side. North of No. 413
East side, near Grove St.

Fremont Street

North side, East cor. Berkeley G

Grand Street

East side, in front of No. 27

Green Street

North side, in front of No. 18
INorth side, in front of No. 104

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106

Grove Street

West side, in front of No. 22
West side, in front of No. 52
West side, opp. Forest
West side, South of No. 151
Hancock Street

West side, in front of No. 26
Kanscom Avenue

West side, North of No. 8
West side, opp. No. 33
Hartshorn Street

West side, in front of No. 18
Haven Street

North side, East cor. Chute
North side, opp. Gould
South side, opp. Linden
South side, opp. Sanborn
North side, in front of No. 100
Haverhill Street

West side, North cor. Wakefield
West side, in front of No. 266
West side, South cor. Charles
West side, North of No. 368
West side, North of No. 454
West side, cor. Franklin
High Street

East side. South of Green St. G

East side, South cor. Mt. Vernon
East side, in front of No. 135

East side, opp. Mineral G

East side, opp. Vine

Highland Street

East side, opp. No. 40 G

West side, South cor. Locust

Hillside Road

North side, West cor. Waverly Ed.

Hillcrest Road

East side, North cor. Ellis Ave.

East side, opp. No. 49

Howard Street

South side, in front of No. 24
South side, West cor. Sigsbee Ave.

John Street

West side, North cor. Pleasant G

West side, North cor. Haven
West side, cor. Village

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1C7

East side, opp. Boston Stove Foundry

King Street

South side, opp. No. 13

Kingston Street J

East side, in front of No. 13
Libby Avenue

Junction Salem St.

Junction <C> Street
Junction 1 F’ Street
Linden Street

West side, in front of Home for Aged Women
Locust Street

South side, in front of No. 24

Longview Road

JNorth side, near house of B. McLane
Longwood Road

North side, Sta. 400
North side, Sta. 900
North side, Junction Sand Pit Road
Lowell Street

South side, West cor. Sanborn
North side, East cor. Bancroft Avenue
South side, West cor. Grand
South side, East cor. Willow
South side, opp. No. 223
South side, opp. No. 281
Mlain Street

West side, South cor. Pearl
West side, South cor. Franklin
West side, South of No. 430
West side, South of No. 408
. West side, opp. No. 399
West side, opp. No. 383
West side, North cor. Forest
West side, in front of No. 326
West side, North of No. 306
West side, South of No. 294
West side, in front of No. 2^50
West side, South cor. Locust
West side, opp. Charles
West side, North cor. Salem
West side, South point of Common
East side, in front of Reading Inn
East side, in front of Theatre Lunch
West side, South cor. Green
West side, North side of R. R. Crossing

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West side, opp. Avon G

West side, opp. Cross ,

West side, South cor. Summer Ave.

West side, North cor. Hopkins
West side, North cor. South
West side, South of No. 16
Manning Street

West side, cor. Pleasant G

Maple Street

East side, in front of No. 4

Middlesex Avenue

South side, East cor. Deering G

Middlesex Avenue Extension

North side, in front of No. 23
Mill Street

South side, opp. Pumping Station G

Mineral Street

North side, East cor. Vine
North side, East cor. Hancock

North side, East cor. Summer Ave G

Minot Street

West side, in front of No. 52
West side, South of Warren Ave.

West side, in front of No. 16 G

Mt. Vernon Street

North side opp. Chute

Oak Street

North side, West cor. Hillcrest Rd.

North side, opp. No. 78

Orange Street

South side, East cor. Belmont

Park Avenue

North side, opp. No. 24 G

Park Street, off Auburn

East side, cor. Elm G

Parker Street

East side, near Central Fire Station

Pearl Street

East side, South cor. Thorndike Gr

East side, South cor. Charles
East side, opp. No. 108
East side, in front of No. 143
/East side, opp. Forest
Pierce Street

West side, South cor. Orange

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Pinevale Road

North side, junction Main G

Pleasant Street

North side. West cor. Middle

Piatt Street

JEast side, North cor. Fairview Ave.

Prescott Street

North side, opp. C!. H. Bangs Co/s Shop
North side, West cor. Arlington

North side, West cor. Washington

North side, op£. Sunnyside Rd. G

North side, East cor. Pratt

North side, East cor. Perkins Ave.

Prospect Street

West side, in front of No. 34
West side, North cor. King
West side, in front of No. 88
Salem Street

North side, opp. John G

North side, in front of Memorial Park
South side, opp. Pearl

North side, West cor. Belmont G

North side, West cor. Bay State Ed.

Sanborn Street

West side, between Woburn and Haven G

School Street

East side, opp. Dudley G

Scotland Road

South side, opp. No. 21

Shackford Road

North side, West cor. Ash G

South Street

North side, opp. No. 197
North side, East cor. Curtis
North side, cor. Walnut

East side, cor. South G

East side, West of No. 54

Spring Street

West side, south of No. 16 G

Summer Avenue

West side, opp. Woodbine

West side, South of No. 103 G

West side, opp. No. 130
West side, North cor. Prescott
West side. South cor. Scotland Rd.

West side, North cor. Oak

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West side, South of No. 253
West side, opp. No. 306
South side, East cor. Hopkins
North side, West of No. 392
North side, in front of No. 412
Temple Street

North side, opp. No. 38

North side, near Jr. High School G

Union Street

South side, West cor. Middle G

Van Norden Road

North side, near Calden’s
South side, cor. Harold Ave.

North side, near Howard's
Village Street

East side, North cor. Green
Vine Street

South side, East cor. Vine
Wakefield Street

North side, East cor. Charles
North side, East cor. Pearl
Walnut Street

North side, near Hopkins
North side, opp. No. 56
North side, opp. Curtis
North side, opp. South
Warren Avenue

South side, opp. No. 15
Washington Street

.North side, in front of No. 46
North side, West cor. Ash
North side, cor. Elliott
West Street

West side, South of No. 22
East side, South of No. 34
West side, North of No. 46
West side, opp. Oak
West side, South of No. 128
West side. South of No. 164
West side, opp. King
West side, opp. No. 241

East side, South of house of Emma S. Knowles
West side, opp. house of Geo. P. Abbott
West side, opp. Cottage Park Rd.

Willow Street

North side, opp. No. 30
West side, South cor. Summer Ave. ,

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Winter Street

East side, North cor. Salem G

Winthrop Avenue

East side, South cor. Weston Road

Woburn Street

North side, at Common G

North side, East cor. Sanborn
North side, West cor. Linden

North side, East cor. Chute G

North side, East cor. Washington

North side, East cor. Temple

North side, opp. Pratt

North side, East cor. Summer Ave

North side, West cor. Prospect

North side, West cor. Berkeley G

Woodward Avenue

North side, West cor. Vale Road G

Private Hydrants

Ash Street

Reading Rubber Mfg. Co.

2 South of Mill

3 North of Mill

1 East of Boiler House
Sanford Mills

2, North of Mill

1 East of Mill

2 South of Mill
0. P. Symonds & Sons

1 West of Mill
John Street

Boston Stove Foundry
1 near office
1 near water tank
Off Pleasant Street

1 near Foote’s Greenhouse
Totals on Hydrants:

Total No. public hydrants: 226.00
Total No. public hydrants gated: 101
Percent gated: 45%

Total No. private hydrants: 15
Hydrant Rental: $7,910.00

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WATER DEPARTMENT

Following is the principal work performed other than the regular
repairs, together with recommendations for the ensuing year.

Pumping Station:

1. A new boiler feed pump has been installed.

2. Air pipes to the filters have been renewed.

3. The three filters and clear well have been cleaned.

4. No. 2 Artesian Well was pulled, redrilled and new air pipes in-
stalled.

5. The north side of the store-house has been repapered.

6. A long distance recording guage between the stand-pipe and the
Station has been installed. This guage records the exact elevation of the
water in the stand pipe at the station.

Recommendations :

That a new floor in the main Pump Room be laid. The present floor
is in poor condition.

General Maintenance and Construction :

(a) Ninety-six applications for water service have been received and
constructed during the year, which is an increase of 14 over last year. The
average length of these services is 65.60 feet and their total linear length
amounts to 6297.90 feet.

(b) In order to accomplish the above, the distributing mains had to
be extended on 13 different streets.

The following tabulation will illustrate this work:

TV10I

1440.5

2274.30

304.5

4019.30

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507.0

anaaAy

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167.8 j

167.8

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139.9

P*oy

510BJX

20.40

P*oy

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229.5

atmaAy

uuay

1>-

475.0

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aay

259.3

iaaj^g

aizuajj

267.0

f»aw*S

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73.0

P™H

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156.0

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304.5

1113.40

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397.0

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One new hydrant has been set at the junction of Pinevale Road and
South Main street.

A general investigation and attention has been given to all hydrants.

Seventy-eight repair jobs on old services have been ordered and com-
pleted during the year.

One hundred and thirty-four new meters were purchased and 304
have been taken out, cleaned, repaired and set back by the men of the De-
partment.

The number of new meters which the Department will need in 1929
will depend on the building operations. Approximately $2,000.00 will cover
the cost of the meters needed as dwellings are ready for them.

Seventeen old meter boxes have been dug up and the meters placod
in the cellars.

New main gate location books have been made up. This work con-
sisted in relocating in the field 455 gate boxes and afterwards putting ihese
locations on linen tracing cloth, from which linen blue prints were made.

One hundred eighteen main gate* boxes have been repaired.

While it was believed that the supply mains and distribution system
were in good condition, even though the great majority had been in ser-
vice for 36 years, the Board felt that an exhaustive study and test should
be made to determine the presence or absence of underground leaks and
capacities of our present mains.

A contract was made with the Pitometer Company of New York to
investigate the system, for the purpose of ascertaining the rates of flow,
both day and night, the location of underground leaks, closed gates, and
other disturbing elements, which tend to break down the efficiency of the
works. The survey was completed during the year and the system found
to be tight and in good condition. One underground leak was located.
Nearly every gate in the system was tested, and fire flow tests at import-
ant points about Town were made.

The two most important items in the distribution survey disclosed
the necessity of an 8 inch main in Lowell St., between Bancroft Ave., and
High St., as an auxiliary supply line to the stand pipe, and the need for
more storage capacity.

Recommendations :

That a six inch main be laid in Sunnyside Ave.

That an eight inch main be laid in Lowell street between Winthrop
avenue and Grand street.

That a six inch main be laid in Weston Road between Hans com
avenue and Bancroft avenue.

That a 1,000,000.00 gallon storage tank be constructed.

That a Storage Yard be obtained to carry the necessary equipment
for construction and maintenance work.

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HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT

To the Board of Public Works:

Gentlemen: — The following is the yearly report of the Highway De-
partment :

Appropriations and Balances

Voted in March Town Meeting, 1928 :

1. Highway Maintenance and Const $45,000.00

2. Development of Storm Water Drain .... 10,000.00

3. Removal of Snow and Ice 5,000.00

4. Maintenance of Storm Drains \ 3,000.<00

5. Sidewalk Construction 5,000.00

6. Mineral Street Bridge Acct 9,000.00

Total $77,000.00

Unexpended Balances from Previous Appropriations:

7. Improved Storlm Water Drainage $ 1,041.55

8. Survey and Plans for Special Drainage . 1, 000.00

Total $ 2,041.55

Total 1928 Appropriations and Balances. $79,041.55

Expenditures and Balances of the above Appropriations:

1. Appropriation for Maint. & Const $45,000.00

Receipts 00.00

Total $45,000.00

Expended :

Pay Roll $16,012.25

General Repairs 2,618.03

Tools, Misc. Supplies 9,991.49

Road Materials 14,898.02

New Equipment . 1,124.45

Total $44,644.24

Balance Unexpended $ 355.76

2. & 7. Appropriation for Storm Water

Drainage $10’, 000. 00

Balance of 1927 ^ . . . 1,041.55

Total $11,041.55

Expended :

Pay Roll

Engr. and Contractor $10,598.42

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Fittings 324.95

Miscellaneous 111.63

Total $11,035.00

Balance Unexpended $ 6.55

3. Appropriation for Snow and Ice $ 5,000.00

Expended:

Pay Roll $ 1,653.95

Sidewalk Snow Plowing 484.50

Tools, Supplies, Repairs, etc 1,398.40

Total $ 3,536.85

Balance Unexpended $ 1,463.15

4. Appropriation for Maintenance of Storm

Drains $ 3,000.00

Expended :

Pay Roll $ 1,603.11

Supplies 1,396.89

Total $ 3,000.00

Balance Unexpended $ 00.00

5. Appropriation for Sidewalk Construction. $ 5,000.00

Expended :

Pay Roll $ 1,150.96

Contractor 3,400.52

Miscellaneous \ . . 448.52

Total $ 5,000.00

Balance Unexpended $ 00.00

6. Appropriation for Mineral St. Bridge... $ 9,000.00

Expended :

Engineering $ 450.00

Contractor $ 4,250.00

Engr. and Contract deductions to be paid

in 1929 4,300.00

Total $ 9,000.00

Balance Unexpended $ 00.00

8. Balance from Survey and Plans for

Special Drainage $ 1,000.00

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Expended :

No Expenditures in 1928 $ 00.00

Balance Unexpended $ 1,000.00

Appropriations, expenditures, etc.:

Totals

Items

Appropriations

Expenditures

Balance

Balance Fwd.

$45,000.00

$44,644.24

$ 355.76

2. & 7

11,041.55

11,035.00

6.55

5,000.00

3,536.85

1,463.15

3,000.00

00.00

5,000.00

00.00

9,000.00

4,700.00

4,300.00

1,000.00

00.00

1,000.00

Totals

$79,041.55

$71,916.09

$7,125.46

$5,306.55

HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT

SNOW AND ICE:

Statistics can be gathered by various merchant's associations which
bear out the thought that a snow bound town suffers more in loss of tradei,
than it costs to maintain a well organized crew, with proper snow removal
equipment. Modern up to date snow plows are in no sense a luxury. The
Public now demands that roads be kept passable at all times. This last
winter all streets in town have been opened up, within 24 hours after each
storm has finished.

A big addition to our snow fighting equipment has been the purchase
of a big wooden street plow. At this time of writing, we have not had a
chance to test it out, but we expect to obtain good results from it.

The added weight and power in the four cylinder autocar truck is
such that it does as much work as the two, two cylinder trucks put to-
gether. When future replacements in trucks are necessary I recommend
that the larger trucks be purchased.

MAINTENANCE WORK:

Maintenance work consisted in covering 321,945 sq. yds. of street
surface. This amount of work, if extended in one straight line 18 feet
wide, would be 30.49 miles long. The average cost per sq. yd. was $.057,
payroll $.684 per hour and the road dressing covered at a rate of 3.15 sq.
yds. to a gallon applied. For the general up-keep in maintenance work
317.9 tons of1 K. P. patching have been used.

CONSTRUCTION:

No bituminous macadam, was laid this year.

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DRAINAGE :

The following table will illustrate the amount of improved storm
water drainage, which has been constructed this past year.

Catch

Location Size Length Basin M.H.

Linden between Haven & Mt. Vernon

in.

763.35

ft.

Mt. Vernon, from Linden St. westerly

in.

107.65

ft.

Woburn St. between Linden & Bancroft

in.

465.50

ft.

Woburn St. between Linden & Sanborn

in.

316.58

ft.

Sanborn St. from Woburn St. southerly

in.

117.70

ft.

Summer Ave. between Scotland Rd. & Ellis

Ave. 12

in.

250.00

ft.

Ash St. in front of Municipal Light Garage

in.

127.00

ft.

West St. between Fremont and King

in.

105.00

ft.

Harrison St. north of Salem St

10 in.

105.00

ft.

Other drainage work of minor importance has been carried

re-

lieve certain sections froanl surface and storm water.

Many old drains have had to be either flushed out or dug up, caused
by old catch basins not being trapped off.

The amount of material hauled away from catch-basin cleaning I es-
timate at 198 tons.

]With the available labor, time, and funds, as many water courses as
possible were cleaned.

RECOMMEND ATIONS :

That a 36 inch drain be constructed between Washington St., Cross-
ing and Haven Street.

The extension of the High St., Drain beyond Woburn St., should be
made up to Mt. Vernon Street.

Ash and Cross St., culverts should be built, and the open water course
between Ash St., and Prescott St., developed.

All of the general outlet channels leading to Lake Quannapowitt
should be developed.

Complying with the vote of the Town, passed at the March Town
Meeting, the Mineral St., Bridge and Northeast abutment wall has been
rebuilt.

SIDEWALKS :

New tar sidewalks have been constructed in Copeland Ave., Gould
St., Salem St., Washington St., and Prescott St., covering an area of 633.40
sq. yds.

Twenty-nine patches have been placed across sidewalks, where sewer
and water connections have been run. This work covered 172.40 sq. yds.

Old tar sidewalks, which were in a dangerous condition, for walking,
have received either a skim or two-coat work, amounting to 1219.14 sq.
yds.

The Highway Department has hauled 536.15 tons of stonedust for
sidewalks, which has covered a length of 24, 233.98 feet or 4.58 miles.

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497.24 sq. yds. of granolithic sidewalks were constructed under con-
tract.

The above total sq. yds. of sidewalk work amount® to 15,935.50 sq.
yds. and if put in one stretch 5-feet wide, would extend 5.45 miles.

Besides the above described work, the Dept, has constructed new
gravel sidewalks, where previously none existed, at the following locations :

Bancroft Ave., between Weston Rd. and Tower Rd.

Hanscom Ave., in from Lowell St., both sides to Weston Rd.

Fairview Ave., North side, between Summer Ave. and Pratt St.

Winthrop Ave., from Lowell East side to angle in road.

Summer Ave., near Woodbine St.

Kingston St., west side along open ditch.

Weston Rd., between Bancroft Ave. and Hanscoimi Ave. both sides.

Hartshorn St., East side by School.

Grove St., in from Lowell, raised 1 foot.

Oak St., west of Hillerest Rd.

Orange St., from Winter to Belmont.

West St., west of Woburn St.

Scotland Rd., west of Hillerest.

Pleasant St., near Wilson.

Hillerest Rd., between Scotland and Ellis Ave.

CURBING:

The cutting of corners by street traffic can only be prevented by
the construction of corner curbs. This last year, 15 corner curbs have been
set to eliminate this trouble.

On the application of property owners, requesting straight curbing
to be set in front of their property, some 1303 feet have been installed.
These property owners have paid one half the cost of the installation of
the curbing.

The labor cost in setting curbing this year came to $.31 per foot.
GENERAL:

In accordance with Chapter 86, Section 1 of the General Laws, bound
stones have been set at P.C/s, P.T.’s1, and I.T1. ’s, on various streets where
these points have been put in.

Many large stones which protruded above grade and were dangerous
for traffic, have been removed from the streets. There is still more of this
class of work to be done next year.

The Department has repaired, and also constructed new guard rails
in and about Town. Pipe fence rails have also been renewed. An example
of this latter work is illustrated in Grove St., 610 feet going in on the
right from Lowell St.

•Retaining walls in Grove, Lowell and Mineral Streets, which sup-
port the sidewalks, have been rebuilt, repaired and pointed up.

A number of street signs and guide posts have been renewed. We
have on hand approximately 100 new posts. As soon as the weather per-

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mits the new metal signs, which the Board lias ordered, will be erected,
which are a vast improvement over the old wooden signs. By standardizing
on the present posts, and the new metal signs, we can now go ahead and
properly post the streets in town.

The Department has resurfaced many of our out-lying streets; for
instance, Grove St., from the Country dub to the Town line was widened
out by a steam shovel and totally regraded. Forest St., has been regraded
in from Main St., 1450 feet and from Grove St., in 1511 feet, Wakefield
St., 2078 feet, Cross St., at this writing, some 600' feet, etc.

During the winter months the men were occupied in cutting brush
in out-lying streets and in overhauling! equipment; and in the early Spring,
before it was time to begin on our maintenance work, all gutters were
cleaned.

Washouts have been repaired throughout the year.

Other work of minor importance has been attended to, such as haul-
ing coal and pipe for the Water Dept., assisting the Cemetery Dept., on
their driveways, policing Memorial Park and the Ball Park, straightening
up curbing, widening out at the junction of West St., and Woodward Ave.,
etc.

RECOMMENDATIONS :

The Department should have a storage yard.

I would like also to recommend that plans and estimates be pre-
pared for new quarters for the Highway Shop in preparation for going
before the Town to ask for an appropriation covering this item. At the
present time we have not enough space to properly house our equipment.

We have in Town many bad street intersections which should be
straightened out. Some of them, are: Bancroft Ave., and Lowell St.; Par-
ker and Haven Sts.; junction of Willow West and Summer Ave.; West
and Prescott Sts.; Sanborn and Haven Sts.; etc. I recommend that when-
ever possible the Board begin to take the necessary steps to round all cor-
ners and to widen street intersections.

Lastly, that the present program of work pursued during the past
few years be continued.

SEWER DEPARTMENT

To the Board of Public Works:

Gentlemen: — The following is the yearly report of the Sewer De-
partment :

Construction and Maintenance:

Balance Brought Forward $12,848.16

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Receipts for 1923 11,065.75

Total $23,913.91

Construction Account:

Expended :

Pay Roll $ 347.81

Bills 220.08

Total $ 567.89

Maintenance Account:

Expended :

1. Pay Roll $ 2,602.14

2. Tools, Supplies, and Repairs 905.59

3. Payment of Bonds 8,000.00

Total $11,507.73

Maintenance and Construction Pay Roll and Bills. $12,075.62

Balance $11,838.29

House Connection Account:

Balance Brought Forward $ 1,564.67

Cash Receipts 1,822.66

Total $ 3,387.33

Expended :

1. Pay Roll $ 875.59

2. Refunds; 211.42

3. Pipe, Fittings, etc . ... 618.11

4. Miscellaneous, Office Supplies 44.50

5. Transfer to Maint. Acct $ 1,437.71

Total $ 3,187.33

Balance $ 200.00

SEWER DEPARTMENT

Sewer Maintenance and Construction:

The principal work performed by the Sewer Dept, this year has been
the construction of four hundred feet of main sewer in Pleasant St., and
twenty-six house connections, with a total length of 1,401.40 feet.

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The above described work on the sewer was constructed along the
lines as laid out by Mr. F. A. Barbour, more definitely shown on Sewer
Plan No. 52, on file in the office.

Two repair jobs on house connections were made during the year;
these connections had previously been put in by outside contractors.

It was found necessary to lower all connections on the east side of
Linden St., between Haven and Woburn, due to the construction of the 30-
inch storm drain. The main sewer in Woburn St., entering the man-hole
on the north-east side at the junction of Linden, was lowered also. Previ-
ously there existed a drop inlet at this point and the main line was lowered
to the invert elevation of the drop inlet, to permit the construction of this
same drain.

A general inspection at all junction points of the main sewer and
main lines has been made during the year. There seems to be an increase
in leakage in that portion of the system which is under ground water eleva-
tion, namely: Eaton St. The frost action on one of the main man-holes
has lifted the brick work off of the water table and a small amount of water
is entering the system at that point. I estimate the leakage around 50,000
gallons per day per mile for the 9.98 miles of sewers already constructed
of which approximately 4.00 miles are well below the permanent ground
water level.

A systematic process of cleaning and flushing has been carried out
in the following streets: Sanborn St., Hamden St., Summer Ave., Cope-
land Ave., Woburn St., Wilson St., and Pleasant St. I have noticed a
slight increase of sewerage disposal deposited along some of the lines where
only a few houses are connected. The main sewers were and are designed
to flow two-thirds full, when carrying a. maximum capacity and all laterals
and sub-mains one-half full. The number of houses that are connected do
not discharge enough material to keep the mains thoroughly flushed.

At this point, I would recommend that any further extensions of
mains be made only in streets where a substantial percentage of the prop-
erty owners apply for connections.

Also that a complete sewer cleaning outfit be purchased for the Dept,
to attend to necessary work which should be done next year.

We have now in Town four streets which are 100% connected where
the sewer runs through the streets, namely: Copeland Ave., Fremont St.,
Perkins Ave., and Wenda St. It might be of interest to know the streets
from which the Town loses over $200.00 yearly from lack of rentals, that
is from dwellings that can be, but are not, connected up with the sewer.
They are Prescott St., Temple St., and Woburn St. From Woburn St., this
last year, the Town lost $513.90 which is the biggest of the above named
streets. To give a clearer idea of how the various streets are connected, I
might say that:

14% are 100% connected
4% are 80% connected
16% are 70% connected

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18% are 60% connected
18% are 50% connected

and the other 30% are under 50% connected. At the present time, we have
721 houses that can be connected, of which 401 are connected, which makes
56% now connected with our system. We also have 157 houses where there
are no connections started at all, 115 which have been run to either the
gutter or sideline of the street, and 48 houses where connections have been
run to the houses but have not been connected up. The Town this year has
received a revenue of $8,477.10 from sewer rentals and I estimate the
amount lost to the Town from those houses not connected at $3,555.90.

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Streets

Possible

Connected

Completed

Connections

Per Cent
Connected

No const,
started

Conn, to
St. line

Partially
installed to
house

Estimated
Revenue of
Houses not
Connected

Revenue

Received

1928

Estimated

Revenue

100%

Connected

Arlington

$ 76.20

$ 23.40

$ 99.60

109.50

265.80

375.30

156.90

37.20

194.10

150 00

201.60

351.60

10 80

10.80

27.90

117.60

145.50

100

239.10

6.00

12.00

100

63.30

100

17.10

Green

160.50

495.00

655 . 50

100

68.10

15.30

156.60

171.90

Haven

122.40

678.00

800.40

High

62.70

128.40

191.10

Hillerest, Rd. . . . ...

40 80

106 50

147.30

Howard

33.30

243.90

277.20

John

19.50

43.20

62.70

King

62.70

Kingston

51.90

105.60

157.50

Lincoln

89.70

192.30

282.00

Linden

36.60

72.90

109.50

Lowell

14.10

56.10

70.20

Main

184.80

1017.60

1202.40

Maple

19.50

8.70

28.20

Middle

9.60

3.00

12.60

Middlesex Ave

61 80

582.30

644.10

Minot

46.20

81.30

127.50

Mt. Vernon

38.10

61.50

99.60

Park Ave

18.30

39.60

57.90

Parker

24.90

44.70

69.60

Perkins Ave

100

173.10

Pine Ave

6.00

Pleasant

53.70

127.20

180.90

Pratt

7.50

29.40

36.90

Prescott

254.10

530.40

784.50

Prospect

114.00

142.80

256.80

Salem

124.80

227.40

352.20

Sanborn

86.40

411.30

497.70

Scotland Rd

100

7.20

Summer Ave

145.20

116.70

261.90

Sweetser Ave

35.70

17.70

53.40

Temple

240.30

428.40

663.70

Union

59.10

12.00

71.10

Village

127.20

145.50

272.70

Warren Ave

45.60

127.20

172.80

Washington

133.00

129.90

267.90

Wenda

100

17.10

Wilson

17.10

37.50

54.60

Woburn

513.90

577.20

1091.10

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721

401

56%

157

115

$3555.90

$8477.10

$12,033.00

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Ash

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Berkeley

Brook

Center Ave

Copeland Ave..

Eaton

Freemont

Fulton

Gould

Green

Haven

Hamden

High

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John

King

Kingston

Lincoln

Linden

Lowell

Main

Maple

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Mt. Vernon

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Parker

Perkins Ave

Pine Ave

Pleasant

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Prescott

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Sanborn

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Union

Village

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Wenda

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Woburn

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66.50

i6.00

46.00

138.00

293.10

144.40

877.90

250.50

293.10

160.40

877.90

52.00

72.00
195.00

32.00

31.00

25.00

26.00

121.00

79.00

51.00

20.20

70.00

41.00

271.00

18.00

99.00

48.00 138.00

42.00 77.00

113.00

317.00

450.00
60.00

209.00

44.00

236.50
1523.20
1089.80

195.00
114.60

516.00

886.50

225.20

107.00

365.00

186.00

219.00

232.50
1591.35

40.00
36.50

908.20

295.50

286.50

132.00

179.00
434.80

46.00

254.00

123.00

64.00

300.00

54.00

61.00

341.00

45.00

98.00

94.00

45.00
173.00
147.90

34.00

68.00
48.00

494.00

222.50

483.50

242.00
2046.20

594.50

557.00
535.90

60.00

576.20

43.00

505.00

62.00

433.80

526.00
587.40

202.50

216.80
2196.90

369.00

450.00
60.00

209.00

44.00

236.50

1716.20
1363.80

227.00
196.60

541.00

912.50

276.20

127.20

365.00

256.00

260.00

232.50
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58.00
36.50

1094.20

414.50

286.50

245.00

179.00

434.80

46.00

483.50

242.00

2641.20

594.50

725.00

633.90

60.00

670.20

152.00

978.00

209.90

467.80

648.00
696.40

202.50

216.80
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2334.70

2178.40

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PARK DEPARTMENT

Gentlemen: — The following is the yearly report of the Park Depart-
ment:

General Appropriation $ 2,000.00

Expended :

Memorial Park:

Pay Roll, Care of Park $ 705.91

Pay Roll, Supervised Play 657.40

Bills 388.36

Total $ 1,751.67

Common and Main St. Parks:

Pay Roll and Bills $ 100.10

Total $ 100.10

Leac-h Park:

Pay Roll and Bills $ 10.00

Total $ 10.00

Washington St. Park:

Pay Roll and Bills $ 138.23

Total $ 138.23

Summary Expenditures:

Total Pay Rolls $ 1,529.39

Total Bills 470.61

Total $ 2,000.00

Balance $ 00.00

Memorial Park

During the winter months skating was enjoyed on that portion of
the Park, which is flooded by closing the gate in the dam.

Before the season opened for the instruction of supervised play, what
minor repairs were necessary were made to the barn building. As much of
the entire Park as possible was burned over, and a general policing of that
section west of the brook was made. Throughout the warm weather, a man
was detailed to look after and keep up the entrance paths, lawns and build-

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ings, and to do such minor repairs as were warranted during his time of
employment.

The gate in the dam was closed early in the fall, to flood again that
portion used for skating.

The summer activities were again under the supervision and direction
of the Reading Woman’s Club. The personal care given to this work, by
their committee, made it another successful season, and the Board of Public.
Works, wishes to express its appreciation of their efforts.

Recommendations for Memorial Park

During the winter months, when the park is used for skating, I
recommend that the pond be well lighted during the early hours of the eve-
ning to prevent accidents.

The paths and driveways should be stone-dusted and rolled and con-
siderable work should be done on the path leading in from Harrison St.

By plowing and harrowing the meadow section of the Park, an in-
crease in area for skating can be obtained.

The main ditch, running through the center of the Park, I recom-
mend to be channel piped.

A complete plan, showing the ultimate development of Memorial
Park, should be made. By having such, a small portion of the development,,
could be constructed each year and the Town would then be working along1 ^
definite program of improvement.

Common and Main St. Parks

;The Common and Main St. Parks were kept constantly mown and
picked up during the year and the general care of the trees was taken
care of by Mr. Donegan. The flag pole on the Common was painted.

Recommendations

An improvement to the Common should be made in accordance with
a general development plan of the entire square. Although a considerable
amount could be spent to advantage in beautifying the Common, making
it more attractive in appearance, the heavy demands for more important
work in the Dept., under the jurisdiction of the Board and other Town
Depts., makes one realize the necessity of asking for the mere necessities
in order to obtain a livable tax rate. With this, idea in view, I reeommnd
policing only, for the coming year, unless it is the wish of the Town’s People
to appropriate a sum necessary to develop the Common in General.

Ball Park

As much care was given to the Ball Park as there were funds to
work with. Money was not available to properly take care of the grounds,
but fair results were obtained from the time; which the Dept, spent there.

Recommendations

The grand-stand needs repairing, and the athletic field, leveling. Be-
fore too much money is spent in extending the present grand-stand, wotild
recommend the investigation of installing more permanent stands than those
which now exist.

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Leach Park

The only attention that Leach Park received during the year, was
that of keeping the grass cut.

Recommendations

That walks and curbing be established around its entire length.

General

A City or Town that has a systematic Park System is indeed fortunate.
If the Town is to improve, and extend its parks, now is the time in which
it should be done, for real estate in Reading is not- on the decline and plots
of land for playground use will be harder to obtain in the future.

The following is a report of the Reading Woman's Club of the Play-
ground Activities at Memorial Park.

REPORT OF THE READING PLAYGROUND COMMITTEE

To the Board of Public Works:

Gentlemen :

The tenth season of the Reading Playground opened June 25, 1928,
with informal exercises. The donors of Memorial Park were our guests.

Mrs. Richard Cobb, president of the Reading Woman's dub brought
greetings.

Miss Ruth E. Farmer, a graduate of Posse Nisisen School of Physical
Education was appointed Supervisor. Miss Farmer was not a stranger to
the children, having served as assistant to Mrs. Tyadke the year before.
She presented her program for the season. Each day had its special classes,
its work and its play. Her youth and enthusiasm thrilled the children and
they promised to co-operate in making it a banner year.

Miss Eva Webb, instructor in Art, Paper and Reed Work, exhibited
specimens of the work that she hoped to accomplish during the season.

The chairlmlan of the committee gave a very cordial invitation to the
Heading children to use the grounds and to enroll in any or all of the
♦classes. She urged them to be careful in crossing the streets and to guard
tfche younger children from danger. Games and free ice-cream concluded the
program for the day. About four hundred (400) children were present.

Junior and senior classes in Coping-saw work proved exceedingly
popular under the direction of Miss Mildred Dulong. The finished articles
in Imany instances were equal to any found in our toy shops.

Archery was introduced and found many ardent followers. Tennis,
squash, basket ball and flash ball were played daily. Base-ball for juniors
and seniors was played on the Town Ball Field twice a week under the
♦direction of Oren Crowe of the playground staff. Games were played with
Aeams from other playgrounds. Reading boys made a good showing.

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The committee is glad to report that the entire staff of workers at
the Playground this year were Eeading young people. Under their manage-
ment it was a most successful season. The property owners in the vicinity
highly commended Miss Farmer and her corps for their wise discipline and
kindly of the children. (Average 150 daily).

The committee is deeply grateful to the Board of Public Works for
its advice and ever ready assistance, the Police for its co-operation and
helpfulness and to all who have in any way helped in making this our
biggest and best year.

Most respectfully,

JULIA P. IDE
GRACE L. TWOMBLY
MARIE L. DAY
ELLEN A. RICHARDS
EiMjMA I. GASCOIGNE
LAURA L. GORDON, Chairman.

To the Board of Public Works:

Gentlemen: — The Playground Committee would recommend that the
sum of one thousand dollars ($1,000) be appropriated by the Town of
Reading for the work assigned to it.

It would suggest that the sum be not definitely divided for salaries
and expenses. It would recommend the construction of a small wading
pool.

LAURA L. GORDON, Chairman.

REPORT OF EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS

To the Board of Public Works:

Gentlemen :

The following is the yearly report of the executive office:

Appropriation $ 5,200.00

Expended :

Salaries and Mise. Supplies $ 5,200.00

Total $ 5,200.00

Balance , $ 00.00

The following taJble shows the expenditures made this past year in
all Departments, the pay roll of each, and the entire expenditures of the
Board of Public Works:

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Bd. Public Water Highway Sewer Park Totals

Works Dept. Dept. Dept. Dept.

Pay Roll. $4,600.00 $17,377.37 $20,420.27 $ 3,825.54 $ 1,489.70 $ 47,712.88

Bills 600.00 36,421.12 51,495.82 9,999.70 510.30 99,026.94

Totals.. $5,200.00 $53,798.49 $71,916.09 $13,825.24 $ 2,000.00 $146,739.32

I desire to enclose in this report a paragraph taken from the report

of the audit of the Town’s financial accounts, made by the Division of Ac-
counts of the Commonwealth, which reads as follows :

1 * The financial records of the Public Works Dept., were examined and
checked in detail. The charges for water rates and services and for
sewer rentals were examined, the recorded receipts were checked and com-
pared with the Treasurer’s and the Accountant ’s books, and the outstanding
accounts were listed and reconciled with the records in the Accountant’s
office. The cash on hand in the Water division was verified by an actual
count. The payments and deposits on account of sewer connections and
the accounts receivable of the Highway division, were examined and recon-
ciled with the Accountant’s books.”

In closing this report, the Superintendent wishes to express his ap-
preciation of the co-operation and interest of all of those in any way as-
sociated with him in carrying on the work of the Dept., and to acknowledge
the helpful suggestions and assistance which he has received from other de-
partment heads in the Town.

H. B. OOLLINS,

Superintendent.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

SCHOOL COMMITTEE

OF THE

TOWN OF READING, MASSACHUSETTS

For the year Ended December 3 1

19 2 8

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SCHOOL COMMITTEE

Carl M. Spencer, Ch., 25 Pratt St.

Mlrs. Marion B. Temple, 50- Hillcrest Ed.
Dr. Harold A. Carnes, 39 Grand St.
Malcolm C. Davis, 12 Federal St.

Mrs. Josephine L. Fowler, 65 Temple St.
Arthur W. Coolidge, 45 Middlesex Ave.

Term Expires 1930
Term Expires 1930
Term Expires 1929
Term Expires 1929
Term Expires 1931
Term Expires 1931

School Committee Office, High School

Clerk, Margaret Hunt Eesidence — 30 Hillcrest Ed.

Office Hours, 8.30 a. m. to 4 p. m., except on Saturdays., 9 to 12 a* m.

Superintendent of Schools

Adelbert L. Safford, Office — High School, Eesidence — 26 Middlesex Ave.
Office Hours, 9 to 9.30 a. m. on school days

Supervisor of Standards and Guidance and Attendance Officer

Ida C. Lucas, 435 Franklin St. Office — High School

School Physician

Charles E. Henderson, M. D.

126 Woburn St.

School Nurse

Mabel M. Brown, E. N. Office — High School

Eesidence — 84 Fellsway East, Malden

Janitors

Salaries

High School: Leonard Clarkson, 38 Ash St. $1,560.00

Matron, Mtrs. Ara Pratt, 29 Orange St. 1,040.00

Matron, Miss Edith P. Gleason, 5 Salem St. 780.00

Junior High School, Henry W. Bryden, 14 Village St. 1,820.00

Walter Smith, 30 Temple St. 1,560.00

Fred L. Eeissle, 12 Minot St. 1,560.00

Matron, Mrs. Agnes Hurley, 109 Haven St. 1,040.00

Highland School, James L. Healey, 65 Woburn St. 1,560.00

Matron, Mrs. Emma Tibbetts, 13 School St. 780.00

Center School, Edward W. McBrien, 18 Salem St. 1,560.00

Union St. School, Edward W. McBrien

Lowell St. School, Sylvanus L. Thompson, 8 Intervale Ter. 1,040.00

Prospect St. School, J. Fred Bichard'son, 17 Prospect St. 1,040.00

Chestnut Hill School, Herbert F. Damon, Stoneham, Mass. 520.00

Night Engineer, Central Dist., Fred W. Strahorn, 12 Dudley St. 500.00

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REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITEE. 1928

Toi the Citizens of Reading:

The School Committee submits its report for 1928. Your attention
is particularly directed to the reports of the several departments of school
activity which accompany it.

There is left in the town treasury unexpended approximately $6000
of the 1928 appropriation. Most of this surplus was in the salary and
electricity accounts. Numerous resignations and changes in the teaching
force, whereby those drawing! maximum salaries were replaced at lower
figures, use of normal school student observers instead of regular substi-
tutes, and discontinuance of the evening school brought about savings in
salaries of about $3200; a reduction in the price of electricity from the
rate used in making up the budget saved about $2000.

The extensive reorganization incidental to opening the new Junior
High School has relieved the over-crowding in the High School and in the
elementary buildings, enabling these schools to resume a normal condition.
Having only children of the first four grades, the primary schools find
easier the problems of discipline and the use of the playgrounds. It enables
the teachers to make better grouping of pupils and to> give more considera-
tion to individual needs.

The grouping of intermediate grades, 5 and 6, in the Highland
School has worked cut very satisfactorily, bringing about uniformity of
preparation for Junior High School as well as affording other educational
advantages not possible when the pupils, were scattered in several schools.

Every regular schoolroom in the public school buildings is in use.
While some mere pupils may be taken care of -with existing facilities, it is
evident that if Reading continues! to grow7 at the present rate, more school-
rooms will be necessary before long.

In most accounts, the budget for 1929 calls for only the normal in-
creases in appropriation occasioned by growth of the schools:. The item
for repairs, however, is larger than for previous year®, due partly to a re-
duction of the 1928 appropriation made at the suggestion of the Finance
Committee. We are particularly desirous during the coming year of making
improvements in the High School lunch-room facilities which in our judg-
ment are urgent.

The health w7ork in the schools becomes more and more important.
Indeed, in many respects, it has come to be a type of community work
operated through the schools for convenience. Many cases could be cited
of marked benefits derived by individual children from the inspections,
clinics, and follow'-up work of the school physician, school nurse and other
interested persons and groups. One of the finest things we can do is to

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bring the benefits of modern medical skill and science to bear upon the
ailments and physical defects of children who, because of them, are pre-
vented from gaining the educational advantages which the commonwealth
and town are prepared to give them as their right.

The terms of Malcolm C. Davis and Harold A. Carnes expire and
these positions are to be filled at the coming election.

Signed :

CARL M. SPENCER, Chairman
HAROLD A. CARNES
ARTHUR W. COOLIDGE
MALCOLM C. DAVIS
JOSEPHINE L. FOWLER
MARION B. TEMPLE

REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, 1928

To the Hororable, the School Committee, of Reading, Mass. :

Gentlemen :

In accordance with custom and the requirements of my office, I sub-
mit herewith the thirty-sixth annual report of the Superintendent of the
Reading Public Schools, the sixteenth that I have made in that capacity.

Brief Resume of the Year

During this year, in conformity with the announced policy of the
School Committee, no new enterprises in extension or elaboration of the
scope cf the work of the schools have been undertaken but efforts of the
personnel have been concentrated on carrying on efficiently the activities
previously established and in some particulars consolidating and perfecting
the technique of gains made in the recent past.

The three-year Senior High School, three-year Junior High School,
and two-year Intermediate School (grades 5 and 6) have made their ad-
justments to meet the requirements of their re-organization effected in
1927 and have entered upon their second year of work with well-defined
objectives and a growing assurance in their technique. The special atten-
tion given to posture in the past two years culminated in the establishment
of a Posture Clinic as a part of the School Health Program but financed
by agencies outside of the School Committee. Miss Julia E. Lancaster, a
teacher of Physical Training, experienced in Corrective Gymnastics, was
appointed Director of Corrective and Remedial Gymnastics to co-operate
with the Posture Clinic. She also teaches physical training to Senior High
School girls.

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School Housekeeping

Efforts at improving school housekeeping have been continued but
standardized procedures and results have yet to be attained, although gains
have been made. Further study and experimentation in this line are still
under way. During the past year for the first time a landscape gardener
under contract has cared for the school grounds. The newly seeded areas
and recent extensive plantation of shrubs at the Junior High School re-
quired expert attention and the grounds of the other schools have been
benefited by the services of a landscape gardener.

Adult Education

A backward step was the omission of an evening school for adults
this year. Reading has never done much in this line compared with what
might be accomplished. This was summarized in my annual report for 1926,
to which I would again call your attention. When a program of Adult
Education is again established, it should be made more extensive and much
more worthwhile than anything attempted here in the past. Adult pupils
are attending Industrial and Home Economic© classes in Wakefield and
Stoneham and' young men and young women are attending Industrial and
Trade Schools in Boston and elsewhere, as in other years. Their tuition is
paid by the town and one-half of it is repaid to the town by the state.

Changes in Classroom Procedure

Nearly all of my report for 1927 was devoted to an account of the
re-organization of the whole 'system of Reading schools made possible by
the opening of the new building of the Junior High School. Consequently
the progressive account of our changing technique of teaching related in
my reports for 1924, 19215 and 1926 was interrupted in 1927. The sum-
mary given in 1926 describes the Winnetka and Dalton plans of instruction
and refers to other progressive schools as sources of our new procedures.
Since that time our methods have been materially developed' and standard-
ized. The most important source upon which we have drawn has been the
plan of lesson assignments for different levels) of attainment or degrees of
difficulty as outlined by Harry Lloyd Miller in the “ Self -Directed School.’’
The Miller plan, Assignment “C, ” contains the minimum essentials of
tool-knowledge corresponding roughly to the Winnetka “goal’’ or indivi-
dual assignment ; Assignment “ B ’’ contains outlines for a more extended
and thorough treatment of the topic under consideration and is correspond-
ingly more difficult and requires more ability on the part of the pupil; As-
signment “A’’ suggests problems of research or creative effort on the part
of the pupil. At Winnetka the creative activities are not closely related to
the attainment of the goals of tool-knowledge but half of each school day
is set apart for “creative activities,” largely of the pupil’s own choosing,
and not necessarily related to the particular goals of tool-knowledge with
which he is concerned at the time. At Winnetka each pupil proceeds at his
own rate regardless of any other pupil. There are no time allotments for the
completion of the individual assignments:; consequently, under the Win-

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netka plan the class is constantly scattering in respect to the goal eacih
one has reached at any particular time.

Under the Miller Plan a time-limit is set tentatively for the study
of the matter frcm which the “C,” “B,’ ’ and “A” assignments are made
up. Everyone is expected to complete the “C” assignment and pass the
diagnostic test before the class receives the next assignment, although in-
dividual exceptions are provided for by the remledial club. The abler pupile
complete the “C” assignment ahead of the time-limit and go on with the
“B” assignment and, if time permits!, to the “A’ ’ assignment. They are
marked as “A,” “B” cr “C’ ’ pupils according to the assignment com-
pleted. In this case the creative work, differing from the Winnetka plan,
is directly related to the tool -knowledge which is more or less utilized or
applied in a creative way in the ‘‘A’ ’ assignment. As might be supposed,
the classroom procedure under this plan is vastly different frctmt the con-
ventional recitation. Prof. Thayer of Ohio State University emphasizes this
fact pointedly in the title of his recent book, “The Pacing of the Recita-
tion” which makes a survey of the origin and development of classroom
procedures, closing with a description of the Miller plan as outlined in
“The Self-Directed School.” Two other books on the Mailer plan contribute
materially to its use. One entitled “Creative Learning and Teaching’ ’ sets
forth the pupil’s self-directed activity and stimulus to creative effort; the
other Maguire’s “Group Study Plan’’ describes a suitable organization of
class-room activities to carry on the Miller plan.

Homogeneous Grouping

Along with the Miller plan of different levels of assignment but
seccndary to it, we are carrying on a plan of homogeneous grouping based
upon five or more factors of personal traits including of course the I. Q.
Homogeneous grouping helps the teacher to handle suecetesfully a larger
class, because when the spread becomes too great the teacher loses track
of individual pupils in a large class and it becomes impossible for her to
direct each one and make proper assignments and give adequate tests. On
the other hand homogeneous grouping destroys the opportunity for the kind
of social integration attributed to the DeCroly cla^s where the older help
the younger and the principle is applied, “from each according to his abil-
ity, to each according to his need” in the co-operative project. Another
aspect of adaptation to individuals is receiving our attention. Trinidad,
Colorado, according to the account given in the book “After Testing
What?” has undertaken to classify the pupils in the schools definitely by
their I. Q’s. on five levels and to put into operation a separate curriculum
for each level. The five levels may be roughly designated as moron, dull-
normal, normal, bright-ncrmal and genius. One difficulty with this plan is
that there are numerous other factors besides the I. Q. that condition suc-
cess. Another is that the present state of the art of testing is not suf-
ficiently reliable for so critical and important a classification, if it bars the
pupil from the possibility of gaining a higher level. Another objection is
the feeling of inferiority likely to be felt by the individuals in the lowest

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group. This is cf course more or less inevitable, but, if the door of op-
portunity and hope is left open, the feeling of inferiority is not so acute.
The Miller plan may be adapted to the three middle levels very successfully,
(the dull, normal, and bright,) giving all three groups the same assign-
ment, graded so that the dull may be expected to complete the “C” as-
signment, the normal most of the “B’ ’ assignment, and perhaps some of
the “Av assignment, while the bright can do all of the “C” and “B“ as-
signments and go as far in the “A” assignment as the time permits. In
other words, the “A” assignment is open to everyone if he can “make the
grade. ” The lowest and the highest level of the Ttinidad classification
should probably be grouped separately and have appropriate treatment both
in assignments and in technique of teaching. Pupils of the lowest level
need to be given something they can do well enough to receive commendation
and thus gain self-respeet, the most important thing for them to attain as
well as the most difficult to keep. Whatever special ability they may have
should be capitalized and made the most of. As for the rest, only palliative
measures are worth the effort and these should be selected by the pragmatic
test, “does it work out advantageously in the life situations in which the
pupil finds himself or is likely to attain V*

Social-Age Factor in Grouping

For the sake of genuine social integration which is the most im-
portant general objective of education it is essential that pupils of the
same social age should be together and engage in various co-operative ac-
tivities regardless of the differences in their I.Q’s. This idea is basic in
the Trinidad plan and the Miller plan. But in the Miller plan the “C”
“B’’ and “A” assignments are too much and too abstract for the lowest
of the five levels of the Trinidad plan and net sufficiently enriched and crea-
tive for the highest level. Special opportunity groups are therefore needed
for the lowest and the highest levels. These groups for the lowest level are
carried on in the Beading schools from the first grade through the Senior
High School. The needs of the supernormal child have not been sufficiently
provided for in general in our schools. This is the second year of experi-
mental werk in this matter in the Intermediate school (grades 5 and 6.)
Homogeneous grouping in the Junior High School contributes materially to
this end and the freedom of electives in the Senior High School affords a
flexibility cf program that goes a long way in this direction. However,
some new technique should be devised to free the supernormal pupil from
the limitations imposed by the scope of work and rate of progress possible
for the average normal mind.

The Super-normal Pupil

The superior initiative and creative ability of the supernormal pupil
must somehow be freed from limitations, stimulated’, and given an ample
and relatively unrestricted field of action in which his powers of creative
endeavor may be in full expansion and feel the natural joy of achievement.
Bergson somewhere has said: “Philosophers who have speculated on the sig-

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nifieance of life and the destiny of man have not sufficiently remarked that
Nature has taken pains to give us notice every time this destiny is accom-
plished ; she has set up a sign which apprises us every timie our activity is
in full expansion; this sign its* Joy.”

The mechanisms of mass education have heretofore been singularly
deficient in challenging the supernormal child to 11 activity in full expan-
sion.” The champion can not be stimulated to maximum effort by matching
him with the tyro; he must have “a foeman worthy of his feteel,” an ad-
venture that will extend his powers to the utmost. Somehow we must or-
ganize a technique to accomplish this for the supernormal child, in connec-
tion with his school activities; otherwise, the tendency to lazinessi and other
interests is almost inevitable. Sometimes these other interests and extrane-
ous opportunities of leadership are his only salvation.

Educating for Responsibility

Miss Lucy Wilson, Principal of a High School for Girls in Phila-
delphia, has published a book entitled 11 Educating for Responsibility.’’ It
is essentially an account of the application of the ‘ 1 Dalton Plan’ ’ of class
procedure in which assignments are made covering the pupils4 studies in
the subject for a longer period than the customary daily assignment for ex-
ample, for two weeks cr for a month. The pupil is then free to pursue his
work on his own initiative, being checked up or required to report progress
to the home-room teacher daily and to the subject teacher at conferences
called by her as she deems necessary. The pupil thus assumes responsibility
for getting his work done on his own initiative. These procedures bring
out the fact that there are two kinds of knowledge: the tool-knowledge that
each person must acquire individually and the socialized knowledge that can
be acquired best only by the participation of members of a group. If the
group is highly organized for the attainment of a specific object fas a foot-
ball team for example) a high degree of integration and specialization of
function becomes necessary for different individuals but the specialization
is done to promote the success of the whole team rather than for the ad-
vantage of the individual. The good of the whole takes precedence over
the interests of any individual.

This is a kind of education for responsibility to which the extra-cur-
ricular activities perhaps appear to contribute more readily than the activi-
ties within the curriculum. However, more and m‘ore means are being or-
ganized to contribute to this end. I would especially call attention to vari-
ous devices now in operation in the Junior High School as set forth by the
report of the Principal whereby pupil-participation in the activities of the
school is educating them for responsibility. In the Junior High School to
a greater degree than elsewhere in our system, an organization of the ad-
ministrative staff has been effected to deal with the problems of homogene-
ous grouping, individual lesson assignments, pupil-participation in adminis-
trative responsibilities, social integration in group activities, and scientific
educational guidance through knowledge of scholastic achievement, person-

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ality traits and behavior. All the pupils of the school are assigned among
three Guidance Teachers; one teacher for each grade, seven, eight and nine.
The guidance teacher keeps informed of each pupil's activities and through
personal conferences guides the pupil in choice of studies, habits of study
and social behavior. The methods in general are based on the Allen plan
in operation in Providence.

Health Program

The health promoting agencies of the schools in co-operation with
the Reading Good Health Committee, the State Dept, of Health and other
agencies have been in active operation during the year. The several clinicisi
have been successful and the Posture Clinic for which we have been working
so long was organized in September and has been in maximum operation
since. The activities in this department have become so numerous that our
School Nurse does not have time to act as the executive officer for all of
them and in addition find time for teaching home nursing and the “little
mother” class for care cf infants. I would recommend the employment of
another nurse to work under the direction of Miss Brown.

The work of Miss Lancaster as: Director of Corrective Gymnastics
and remedial physical exercises has been of great importance in connection
with the functioning of the Posture Clinic and it has also supplied a long-
felt want in giving definite organization and supervision to gymnastics in
grades one to four which previously had been left to: the initiative of the
different class-room teachers.

Special attention is called to the reports of Miss Brown and Miss
Lancaster.

Changes in Personnel of Teachers

Sixteen names of teachers that appeared1 in the report of 1927 do
not appear in the report for 1928. There are also two new full-time posi-
tions and one part-time position filled by new* teachers, making nineteen
changes in the teaching staff. This is the largest number we have had in
one year. Three changes were because of unsatisfactory work; four were
due to the promotion of teachers to higher salaried positions elsewhere; two
were due to marriage; three were due to moving to other localities for
special reasons; two due to leave of absence to travel; and two took up
other lines of activity from choice. Mr. Woods, Supervisor of Musdc, went
to teach in the State Normal School at Salem; Mr. Clark Cell went to teach
at Winnetka, Illinois ; Miss Beil and Miss Kershaw are traveling and study-
ing in Europe; Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Taylor are in Portland, Oregon; Miss
Nelson isi teaching in a New York State Normal School; and Mrs. Davis
is teaching in a suburb of New York City. While in some cases we suffered
severely, on the whole we seem to have been most fortunate in filling the
vacancies and taken together our present corps sleemg to equal the one last
year at this time.

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Agricultural Department

I wish to call particular attention to the satisfactory showing of the
Agricultural Department in 1928 as set forth in the report of the instruc-
tor.

A town of the size of Reading is necessarily limited in the variety
of vocations to which it can open the way for its pupils to enter directly
or indirectly. The Agricultural Department of Reading High School has
functioned very satisfactorily in the opinion of the state authorities under
whose approval the town receives reimbursement from the state for two-
thirds of the salaries of the instructors. In addition to that, the town has
for its own purposes one-half the tuition of the non-resident pupils. It
would seem therefore highly advantageous for the boys of Reading to have
the opportunities afforded by this school at only a slight cost to the town,
Two boys, graduates of this school within a few years, paid last year an
income tax on an income of $30,000 from the business theyl are carrying on
in Reading. What other vocational education at moderate eo'sit could the
town substitute for it to the advantage of the pupils or to the best interests
of the town iself ?

Training for Business

The Commercial Department of the Senior High School continues to
be highly successful ate shown by the positions occupied! by its graduates.
The Reading Banks and many of the business offices in town have a strong
contingent of graduates of Reading High School in their clerical staffs.
There are large numbers employed in Boston and elsewhere and frequent
calls for additional stenographers are received from firms already employ-
ing one or more of our graduates. It is seldom that any of our commercial
graduates of good ability and good habits is unemployed.

Employment Bureau

A Placement Bureau to aid in securing positions) for pupils who wish
to work outside of school hours and for graduates of the school was recently
organized. Principals of the Senior and Junior High Schools, heads of the
Commercial and Agricultural Departments, and the guidance teachers are
included in the governing board of the bureau.

Besiddsl serving the immediate necessities of those who must earn
money in order to continue their studies, this bureau aims to aid its patrons
to gain experience that will guide them and their advisors in finding the
most suitable and satisfactory permanent vocations. This bureau functions,
therefore, as a factor in the whole system of educational and vocational
guidance and its activities are in a large degree the results of the integra-
tion of these several agencies).

Teacher Training

Pupils from the State Normal School at Salem have done practice
teaching in the Primary and Intermediate grades and the classes for re-

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tarded pupils, in the Junior High School and to a limited extent in the
Commercial Department of the Senior High School. We have also had
pupil-teachers from the Leslie Normal School and several other private nor-
mal schools and schools of physical training. The advantages to pupils and
teachers resulting from the presence of these enthusiastic young workers is
a substantial contribution to our work and more than compensates for any
inconvenience or extra work that they may occasion. They make possible
individual tutoring in many instances where the teacher alone could not find
time for it.

A large number of our teachers are taking afternoon, evening or
Saturday courses in Boston and Cambridge and a goodly number enroll in
Summer courses at different Normal schools, colleges and universities.
There is a steady improvement in the level of professional training in our
teaching corps.

Administrative Authority

The administrative functions: of the schools are centered in the
School Committee organized with a Superintendent of Schools as its secre-
tary and executive officer and a corps of Supervising Principals), each re-
sponsible through the Superintendent to the School Committee for the ad-
ministration of the particular school or schools of which he or she is princi-
pal. The Superintendent is assisted by a staff of specialists called Super-
visors or Directors who are assigned to special fields of work to act, each in
his or her particular field, as a deputy of the Superintendent. Each princi-
pal is the executive authority in his or her own building and any advise
on directions pertaining to the work of any teacher or other employee of
that building' is to be given by the Superintendent or his deputy through
the principal or with his knowledge and co-operation. In case a principal is
not willing to accept the advise of a deputy he may appeal to the super-
intendent; if not satisfied1 with the decision of the Superintendent he may
appeal to the School Committee whose authority is final. If the directions!
of the Deputy to a Principal are not properly heeded and carried out it is
the duty of the Deputy to inform the Superintendent of the circumstances
and await an adjustment of the difficulty. If a teacher, janitor or other
employee is dissatisfied with a decision of the Principal after a conference
has been held he or she may appeal to the Superintendent and if not satis-
fied with the Superintendent’s decision he or she may appeal to the School
Committee whose authority is final within the field of the responsibility
delegated to them by law.

Special Reports

I would call your attention to the reports of my staff of special
supervisors and directors and of the Principals of the High School, the
Junior High School, the Intermediate School and Central Primary Schools,
and the Lowell Street School.

In the field of Research and Guidance Mrs. Lucas and her assistant
have developed their service to a higher plane and extended its scope during
the past year.

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In the field of Health Inspection and Education the work has been
growing constantly and will be further developed as soon as an assistant is
provided. Mass Brown’s report as Director in the General Field cf Health
Activities is supplemented by the report of Miss Lancaster as specialist in
posture work and remedial gymnastics.

In the field of Art Education, Miss Lahaise in her seventh annual
report sums up some of the achievements of the year.

In the field of Penmanship, Miss Camercn in her second annual re-
port shows) very gratifying progress.

In the field1 of Music, a radical reorganization was occasioned by the
loss of the services of Mr. Woods who became a member of the staff of the
State Normal School at Salem. Mr. Mac Arthur was engaged to 'conduct
the large choruses and the orchestras in the Senior and Junior High Schools
and Miss Whittiej was appointed Supervisor of Music in grade one to seven
inclusive. Miss Whittier’s report is presented herewith. The introduction
of rhythm exercises in the Primary grades is progressing and several toy
bands have been organized. The report of the Principal of the Senior High
School contains much valuable information and shows that the school is
functioning very successfully as a college-preparatory institution as well as
in many other fields. The report of the Instructor in Agriculture supple-
ments the Principal’s report and as noted elsewhere indicates very satis-
factory results. The report of the Principal of the Junior High School
makes note of progress in various aspects of the experimental work in the
individualizing of instruction in that school and other distinctive develop-
ments) incidental to the reorganization last year as a three year Junior High
School. The report of the Principal of the Central Primary Schools and
the Intermediate School contains interesting accounts of beginnings in in-
dividualizing instruction, of new courses in science and thrift, in social
studies and in health. The report of the Principal of the Lowell Street
School makes note of the advantages of having only the first four grades
in the school, of the posture work and of other items of interest in the prog-
ress of the school. The co-operation of the parents with the Principals and
Teachers in the education of their children is of the highest importance.
What the home has made the children before they enter school is what the
teachers have to build on, and the influence of the home must remain an
important if not a deciding factor in the development of the child’s person-
ality and character during the period of school attendance. It is therefore
of the greatest importance that school and home should be integrated by
mutual understanding, good-will, and a common objective in the training of
the child.

I wish to thank the various persons and organization^ that have co-
operated with the schools during the past year. Without their good will,
encouragement and assistance much that has been accomplished would have
been impossible. I thank the teachers and other employees of the Reading
Schools for a uniformly co-operative spirit and a cordial attitude. I thank

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the School Committee for continued evidences of their confidence and for
their helpful suggestions and guidance in administering the schools.

Respectfully submitted,

ADELBERT L. SAFFORD,

Superintendent.

REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND GUIDANCE
OF THE READING PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOR THE YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER 31, 1928

Mr. Adelbert L. Salford, Superintendent of Schools, Reading, Masls. :

Dear Sir:

The Department of Research and Guidance has been able this year to
accomplish more than ever before in its history. The files are at last com-
plete so that the cffice has records of every pupil enrolled in the Reading
Schools from the first grade to the junior class in the Senior High School.
These records have been a great help in many ways, notably the following:

1. Through the information contained in these files this department:

has been able to render valuable assistance in the formation of the remedial!
groups in the Junior High School and has helped to solve many a difficult
problem in the other schools. *

2. This information has helped in important revisions of the curric-
ulum to make it better serve the needs of the pupils, as outlined below*:

A. In arithmetic the individual method of work has been introduced
in the fifth and sixth gradesi and a new departure in marking has followed.
There is no longer a mark of ‘ ‘ A, ’’ ‘ 1 B,’ ’ ti(Jt or 11 D’' but each pupil goes
ahead at his own rate of speed. There is simply a ladder to climb and the
report shows hew far the pupil has progressed and where the majority of
his group stand.

B. The reading in the fifth and sixth grades is also largely an in-
dividual matter now. Last year we made a thorough testing with Monroe
and Stanford reading tests and found the reading age and grade of every
child. These marks were tabulated for teacher's reference and books care-
fully fitted to ages and grades were placed in each fifth and sixth grade
for individual reading.

In addition to this we have a large number of books loaned by th'e
library and many of the children have library cards of their own. One
hundred and twenty-one certificates have been given out to children for
reading five or mere books and passing in a report of the same. During

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the silent reading period, each child may have a different book. He passes
in a brief report of the book he has read to the teacher. During the oral
reading time the pupil reads something new to an audience whom he is ex-
pected to interest. This reading may be a carefully prepared selection
from some book he has just read or a bit of poetry which he personally
likes. It may take the form of sight reading from an interesting book
chosen by the teacher where each child takes his turn until the story is
finished. Those children who do not need drill in the mechanics of reading
may, during the drill period be dramatizing a story, preparing to give a
lecture on something of interest to the class, gathering interesting informa-
tion on some topic in history or geography to enrich those subjects.

G. The Course in Social Studies has included a regular course on
Thrift based on Barnard’s Teaching Outline and the bank stamps obtained
from the automatic banking machine placed in our schools by the First
National Bank of Beading. The bank reports to us that more savings have
been deposited this year than ever before, proof enough that our thrift
teaching is having results. A very thorough course of study in Thrift Edu-
cation is being carried out in the Highland School, Grades V and VI, untjer
the instruction of Miss Grace, who reports a total savings from some 300
pupils of $669.89 from November 19, 1928 to December 17, 1928. This
money was saved from the pupil’s allowances and earnings and deposited
in Home Blanks, Savings Accounts and Co-operative Banks, as well as in
Bank Stamp Savings.

The following figures represent the total amounts that each school
has deposited in Bank Stamp Savings during the period from September
to December 31, 1928:

School

Number of

Amt.

Percent of

Pupils

Saved

Stamps

Chestnut Hill

$ 40.19

103%

Center

201

123.17

Prospect

169

56.45

Dowell

135

39.51

Highland

400

119.57

Junior High

539

54.01

Deposited in Bank Machine on
Saturdays and Holidays

Total

1,481

$515.90

Thirty-five per cent of our school pupils save regularly through Bank
Stamp Savings.

In the sixth grades the individual method of study is being tried
out with the new note books Directed Study in History by Schenk and Or-
ton. The results so far have been most satisfactory.

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D. A complete course of study in Health has been introduced ia
the 5th and 6th grades. This course of study is based on the Cleveland
Tentative Outline. The work is planned largely for pupil participation in
socialized recitation and project work. It aims to give the pupils! an idea
of the importance of studying Health as a necessity to the wholesome en-
joyment of life not as an end in itself.

3. These files contain test results, age-grade and personality studies,
the most important use of which is to aid in simplifying pupil promotions,
making them more objective and fair to the child. Each grade is listed
separately. The following data is considered:

1. Name

(Alphabetical list of pupils taken from registers).

2. School or Room in which registered.

3. Date of Birth (Certified by the school census).

4. Chronological Age reckoned for April lisit.

(Cases of under-age and over-age pupils noted for further study).

5. Mental age reckoned for April 1st.

6. Intelligence Quotients.

(The most reliable I. Q’s. taken from the Intelligence tests rec-
ords; exceptional cases noted).

7. Educational Ages and Gradesi

8. Reading Grades.

9. Arithmetic Grades.

(Factors 7. 8. 9. are taken from the Stanford Achievement tests
records for April. In order to estimate pupil progress each
pupil’s Stanford record for the previous year is also noted).

10. Teachers’ Estimates (taken from report cards).

Poorest subject.

Best subject.

Honors.

Average grade in school.

11. Test Results:

Arithmetic scores in Fundamentals and Grade Work Language
Scores.

Stanford Grade; Los Angelesi Grade; Composition Work.

12. Personality Traits :

School History.

Work Habits.

Any persona] factors likely to influence school success.

Remarks on Retardation or Acceleration.

Final Promotion or Group Assigned.

4. Homogeneous Grouping. What is it? Why do we practice it?

We have found that our pupils do a better grade of work when they
study in groups of like abilities. It is also much easier for the instructor
to fit the material she wishes to teach to a class of one general type or
ability than to a mixed group.

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In the Highland and Junior High Schools such grouping is neces-
sary because departmental work is carried out and the courses of study are
being fitted to three types of pupil: Gifted, Normal and Slow. Our group-

ing is not on any cut and dried basis of one or two factors only, but Ls
dene after a careful consideration of all the data on the promotion lists
and numerous conferences with the teacher, principal, Guidance Director
and Statistician. Often the School Nurse is called in for advice on certain
cases. Neither are our groups fixed and permanent. They can be changed
at a day’s notice. Children change their habits of application and their
attitudes toward school work. Their achievement changes too. Because of
this, it is often necessary to assign a pupil to a new group better fitted to
his needs. It is sometimes so difficult to place a child in any group because
of conflicting factors that he is left in doubt and watched until he proves
his level of accomplishment and decides his own placement.

This grouping is carried out according to the best scientific proce-
dure known. The whole purpose is to place the child where he can do his
best work and be happy in his class environment. It is therefore based
on the soundest principles of Mental Hygiene. We try to decide whether
the child will respond better in a class where there will be much competi-
tion or whether he belongs in a group where much individual work is done.
By the time a child reaches the fourth gTade in our schools his Personality
shows this factor in his placement. Our grouping is one step toward our
ultimate goal of entirely individualized instruction.

5. Age-Grade Study:

Much has been said about the Under-ageness of Reading School
children. The facts show that even though they are allowed to enter the
first grade at five years of age, they do not enter much before five years
and six months, and we are only two months below the average age for the
State of Massachusetts. The figures in the table below show how favorably
Reading compares with State averages in percentage of Under-ageness,
Normal Age, and Over-agfeness, Acceleration and Retardation. It is impor-
tant to note that Reading leads all cities and towns in the State that are
over 5000 population in the amount of Acceleration and has the lowest
percent of Retardation. The per cent, of Acceleration for Reading was ap-
proximately 48 while that of the entire State was 28 ; per cent, of Retarda-
tion for Reading was 4.5, that of the State, 10. These figures can be in-
terpreted in actual dollar and cents savings to the taxpayers of Reading.

Perhaps the biggest new undertaking is the organization of a Place-
ment Bureau. This is well under way but is still so far from completion
that only a statement of its aims can be given in this report. The High
School knows how well the pupils who leave it to enter college carry on in
these higher institutions and the record of a vast majority shows that in
that part of its work our schools are functioning, well. But preparation
for college is only one phase of the work for which Reading citizens are
paying so much money into our school system. Not all boys and girls

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should go to college and this is not a question of I. Q’s. necessarily either.
What are we doing for these? In their cases is our education functioning
at a high rate? If not, what must wre do? To answer these questions is
one aim of this bureau.

We also w’ant to bring our employers into contact with our boys and
girls wiio need and want work, (we trust,) to the mutual advantage of both.
It is well known that one of the greatest aids in making a. man or woman
a good law-abiding citizen is a steady iob which he likes fairly well mos£
of the time and that there is nothing so demoralizing' as loafing around
with no work to do. We hope this bureau will prove to be of great help in
the future in providing the right guidance and in helping the boys and girls
find congenial work for which they are well fitted.

The 4-H County clubs this year have been a Sewing Club, a Food
Club, a large Garden Club and a Poultry Club. A few of the girls did
some canning but the showing at the Grange Fair was net up to the stand-
ard1 of former years.

We now have a well-organized system of special classes reaching
from the first grade to the first year of the Senior High School. This
makes it possible to serve the special needs of some who do not wish to
follow the regular line of wrork, but need training in order to live lives of
usefulness in the future.

With the exception of the month of August the Habit Clinic has met
once a month during the year and much help has been given to. both parents
and teachers.

The large amount of work accomplished by this department this year
is due in great measure to the untiring efforts and competence of Miss
Verna Wadleigh. my co-worker. She has not only done much cf the test-
ing but has thoroughly organized the statistics in the office so that they
are now in shape to be of great help in making our schools serve the best
interests) of our pupils. In closing this report, I wish also to acknowledge
my indebtedness to you, Mr. Saflford, and tc. all the teachers wdiose co-opera-
tion and' loyal support have made this work possible.

Respectfully submitted,

IDA C. LUCAS,

Director of Research and Guidance.

REPORT OF THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT, 1928

Mir. Adelbert L. Safford, Superintendent of Schools, Reading, Mass.

Dear Sir:

Herewith I submit the report of the Health Department for the year
ending December 31, 1928.

In reviewing the accomplishments of the past twelve months it ia

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gratifying tc. note a steady growth to report progress and additions to the
school health service. Notable among the new activities are the extension
of the physical examinations to the Junior and Senior High Schools; the
establishment of a Posture Clinic; and the beginning of an intensive and
extensive program of posture corrections in our schools. All these major
accomplishments have come as a result of a definite and pressing need and
have done much to round out the health service which Reading provides for
its school children.

Medical Department

In conformity with the plan for a physical examination for every
school child, physical examinations were made of Junior High School pupils
from January to May of last year. A total of 400 pupils were examined:
386 were re-examined by the school physician and 14 by their family physi-
cians. A report of the examinations made by the school physician and
school nurse is as follows:

Enlarged Tonsils, Adenoids, Glands, 53; Defective Teeth, 30; Heart
Conditions, 14; Suspicious Chest Conditions, 0; Hernia, 0; Defective Vision,
24; Defective Hearing, S; Posture Defects, 243; Miscellaneous, 4.

An encouraging sign was the comparatively small number of enlarged
tonsils and defective teeth. Undoubtedly the work that has been done along
these lines for the past several years accounts for this. As in the elementary
schools the largest number of defects was in the postural gToup.

The detection of hearing defects by the usual school method presents
a problem as it is practically impossible to get a quiet place in any of the
school buildings in which to give the test. For this reason, as well as to
insure a more accurate check, an audiometer macbine is recommended.

Beginning in the fall physical examinations; were made of the in-
coming classes and the two classes at the Opportunity School. In Decem-
ber this work was started in the High School. Up to the present time ap-
proximately half the pupils of the High School have been examined and
already the findings have justified the expenditure of time that this work
required.

The weighing and measuring in the schools is now being done on
the following basis: by the Physical Education teachers in the Senior and
Junior High Schools and in the Highland School; by the school nurse in
the other schools. The children at the Highland School and elementary
schools are weighed and measured three times during the year. The others
are weighed and measured less frequently. In addition, the underweights,
tuberculosis contacts, and camp children are weighed once a month.

A fairly regular schedule cf school visiting has been maintained by
the school nurse throughout the school year. On these visits inspections of
children have been made, sanitary conditions investigated in the school
buildings, health talks have been given, and individual conferences have
been held with pupils and teachers.

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The extent to which the work has developed makes it impossible for
one person to cover adequately all phases. In addition, many parts of the
work are not developed as they should be and with the present staff there,
seems little prospect for further expansion. This is an unfortunate situa-
tion as there are several branches of the health work that should receive
attention. The Household Art Course as now given in the Junior High
School' is incomplete and should have a course in homle nursing added to, it„ ,
also more time and attention is needed for nutritional work. Today the
problem of overweight is being stressed on account of the detrimental effect
of overweight on health. Reading has many children who are seriously
overweight and work along this line would seem .justifiable as a part of the
school health program.

Clinic Services

Through the co-operation of the State Department of Health and
local private organizations, the Reading schools have the advantages of
several clinics, all of which, with the exception of the Posture Clinic, have
been in operation for varying lengths of time.

Schick Clinic

The activities of the department in diphtheria prevention began April
2nd and continued until May 11th, with a total of seven clinic days; a total
of 710 children in attendance at the clinic, and an average attendance of
101.

While the clinics are well patronized, many parents are not availing
themselves of these opportunities for the protection of their children.
Parents should also bear constantly in mind the prevalence of susceptibility
to diphtheria and the greater fatality of the disease in children of pre-
school age as compared with the school group. For this reason the need of
reaching pre-school children is imperative'. The school clinics have always
been open to the pre-school children yet it hardly seemiss within the scope
of the school health work to handle this group as a whole. Such functions
should properly come under the direction of the Board of Health.

Examination Clinic

A small examination clinic was held April 24th for the purpose of
sollicking those pupils who had previously been examined at the State Ex-
amination Clinic. At the same time, twenty-three tuberculosis contacts were
examined. This arrangement proved much more satisfactory from the stand-
point of conservation of time than having such cases examined at North
Reading Sanatorium. At the time of writing this report arrangements are
being made for another clinic at which tuberculosis contacts not under the
auspices, of private physicians may be examined. There are at the present
time forty-five known tuberculosis contact eases in our schools.

Pre-School Clinic

Due to the small percentage of defects corrected during the sum-
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September were not held at the various schools as they had been before,
<but examinations were conducted at the Pre-School Clinic diiring the months
of June, July, August and September. The value of the pre-school examina-
tions cannot be over-emphasized. Studies by Dr. Baker of New York show
that proper and adequate physical examinations made in early life are es-
sential and that if these are properly followed up and suitable treatment
obtained the child’s health will be more thoroughly protected. Certainly
if children could enter school free from remedial defects and in as fit a
physical condition as possible a reduction in the loss of time through illness
and! in was|te of money from retardation could undoubtedly be effected.
The Pre-School Clinic is rendering a valuable service to the school health
program in this particular but naturally does net reach all the children.

Dental Clinic

The Dental Clinic, in completing its seventh year, continues to ren-
der a valuable service to the health work of the school. A report of the
work at the clinic for the school year ending June 30, 1928 is as follows:

3'04 examinations; 268 Prophylaxes; 1269 fillings; 299 extractions;
107 treatments. One thousand one hundred and six visits were made to the
clinic by 304 individual children. Eighty-seven new cases were enrolled and
262 completed cases were discharged.

The need for the clinic has far exceeded its capacity. The dental
committee has attempted to meet this situation by setting an age limit for
new cases, but even this is inadequate in solving the problem.

The clinic has undertaken this past year two new functions, which I
feel are decidedly worthwhile. Examinations of the teeth of pupils in the
Lowell Street and Union Street schools were made by the slcnool dentist.
This type of examination is valuable, as, in the majority cf dental distur-
bances, only the dentist with the aid of his instruments, can detect the
minute changes in the teeth which constitute the beginning of deterioration
and decay. While it is not feasible with the limited amount of time the
dentist has for clinic work to make such examinations in every grade, it is
desirable to have such service in the first, third, and sixth grades.

In addition, the clinic has organized a Pre-School Dental Clinic. The
work in this connection included the supervision of dietary and physical con-
ditions as well as actual dental supervision and repair work.

Posture Clinic

The most important of the new projects developed during the year
was the Posture Clinic with it correlating corrective work in the schools.
The clinic was established and is financed by the Reading Good Health Com-
mittee and is open to all children of school age. The Committee was most
fortunate in securing as the Director of the clinic Dr. W. R. MacAusland
of Boston, a man who is nationally known for his work along the orthopedic
lines. Already much has been accomplished as evidenced by the following
report: Number of Clinics held, 5; Visits to Clinic, 88; Cases Enrolled, 50;
Discharged Cases, 2.

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As a result of the clinic sixteen children are today wearing siome sort
of corrective appliances: forty-two are receiving individual posture correc-
tion in the form of exercises: three have had X-rays and five have been
operated upon. Of the five operative cases, four children who had1 infantile
paralysis deformities were operated upon by Dr. MacAusland on December
14th at the Winchester Hospital.

Physical Education

The physical education department has undoubtedly shown the great-
est expansion and development of any single school health agency during the
past year. Corrective work started in the High School last year, was ex-
tended to the Junior High School, and regular classes of corrective gymnas-
tics are new being held under the direction of Mrs. Tyacke and Mr. Althoff.
The School Committee is to be congratulated upon securing Miss Lancaster
to fill Miss Nelson’s place at the High School and also in the arrangement
of the program, whereby she supervises the physical education work in the
grades and has charge of the corrective work throughout the schools. Miss
Lancaster, because of her previous training and experience, is especially
fitted for work of this type and the high order of work that she is doing
deserves the commendation of the health department.

The physical education teachers have assisted greatly in the detec-
tion of pcstural defects by being present, at the time during which physi-
cal examinations of pupils have been made. The health instruction in the
lower grades has continued along the same general lines as in previous
years. The work in the fifth and sixth grades has been re-organized and a
new course of study in the main similar to the Cleveland Course cf Study in
Health has been adopted. The program of health instruction in the Junior
High School is similar to that described in last year’® report.

Other Activities

Applicants for the health camp were carefully selected during the
month cf April and were exam ined at North Reading Sanatorium. This en.
tailed taking the children to the Sanatorium and securing the correction of
any physical defects as no child was sent to camp who was not free to gain.
Sufficient funds were raised by the Reading Good Health Committee to send
ten children to. camp. It is regretable that we have no open-air room as
many of these children would continue the improvement made at camp
much more effectively under the regime of the open-air class than under the
regular school program. This department rendered valuable assistance in
the sale of Christmas seals: in the handling of children’s tickets for the
movie for the purpose of raising money to send children to the health camp;
and in arranging the Christmas party given to some of the sichool children
by the Reading Good Health Committee.

Conclusion

If a fair advance has been made during the year in the school health
work, such progress has not been made through the efforts of this depart-

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ment alone. The best results) in any health work are attained only through
the co-operation and whole-hearted interest of every one in the school and
in the community. Our work has been made easier by the support given
to our efforts by the local unofficial agencies, by the teachers, and by the
parents. The substantial backing by such organizations at the Readinlg
Good Health Committee, the Bed Cross, and the Tuberculosis Committee,
and the co-operation of the Department of Welfare and the Beading Visit-
ing Nurse Association have contributed in no small way to: the growth and
success of the work. The Beading Chronicle has given us much valuable
space.

At this time I wish to express my appreciation to each and all who
have contributed to the work of the health department.

Bespectfully submitted,

MABEL M. BBOWN, B. N.

School Nurse.

REPORT OF THE POSTURE WORK IN ALL SCHOOLS AND PHYSI-
CAL EDUCATION WORK FOR GIRLS IN THE SENIOR H. S.

The physical education work for the girls of the High School has
been continued along the lines of previous yearn The work is divided into
sports, class work in the gymnasium, and posture training in special cor-
rective classes.

An effort was made to revive an interest in field hockey. By an ami-
able understanding with Coach Aldred, on two days a week the girls used
part of the football field for practice. As it has too rough a surface for
finished playing, and was not marked, no hockey games could be played on
it. The team was invited to play several practice games away from home
with Stoneham, Winchester and Swampscott. Considering the handicaps
under which they practised, they made an excellent showing. Hockey is a
particularly good game for high school girls because it gives a comparatively
large number a chance to participate and because the various playing posi-
tions offer opportunities for different types of players — the slow, the fast,
the athletic, and the less rugged. At the end of the season the school en-
tered the Greater Boston All-school tryouts for the honorary hockey team.
Four players survived the first cut, one player was invited to the final try-
out. With a. proper playing field the High School would show great en-
thusiasm for this fine sport.

The Basket Ball season opened with a new policy. Mr. Sussman
has decided to place Reading High School on a par with ether progressive
schools by discontinuing inter-school championship games for girls. As
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advantages accrue fromi this type of competition which cannot he met by
other kinds of games, it is thoroughly in keeping with the best physical
education ideals to give up inter-school competition. The same amount of
coaching time is devoted to a larger number of pupils. Early in the sea-
son a series of games between the different gymnasium classes was played
off. This is to be followed by interclass games for class numerals. A
final varsity squad will be chosen to play three invitation games with other
schools. These are to be more in the nature of a play-day and informal
sports meeting1 than for championship play.

For the spring season other sports such as baseball, tennis or track
are to be featured.

(The regular class work is planned to progress from simple gymnas-
tic exercises to those requiring more strength and skill. The apparatus
ordered for the gymnasium will be of inestimable advantage to the girls.
It is almost impossible to develop muscle and courage without it, and un-
less they are developed by the end of the high school they are not likely to
be acquired at all. Many girls are fortunate in possessing a background
which brings them to school already possessing considerable initiative and
skill. If the less fortunate are to be made their equal, they must have
opportunities to hang, to climb and jump under safe supervision which is
just what gymnasium apparatus offers.

Posture training has received special emphasis. Every month each
class is given a posture test. Those who show continued deficiency are
assigned to supplementary work in a special class. Any serious cases are
recommended to the Orthopedic Clinic under Dr. McAusland. Most faulty
posture is due to ignorance or carelessness and this can largely be corrected
by regular class work. No girl is assigned to the special class until she
has had an opportunity to correct herself by her own efforts!, and has shown
that this is not sufficient for her particular case.

Por the first time this year physical examinations by the school phy-
sician, Dr. Henderson, were extended to the High School. These examina-
tions have become part of the regular school routine in all the lower grades.
It is important to carry through this wrork, and also to check on the health
of pupils who enter the Reading Schools for the first time. Every effort
is made to make the examination easy and pleasant for the girls. At first
there was some misunderstanding as to the desirability of taking such an
examination, but most of the pupils were glad of the opportunity to secure
the necessary approval for their participation in school sports at this con-
venient time. A number of physical defects requiring treatment were dis-
covered. This alone was enough to prove the value of such an annual
health check.

The posture work in all the schools has been organized around the
Orthopedic Clinic as a center. In all the grades through the sixth, posture
training is given all the pupils. The efficacy of this work is checked by
posture tests. Five hundred and forty-nine pupils have been helped by a

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little instruction and stimulation to better effort. The balance are being1
given special help in small classes. Since there is very little space and
no equipment available for this work not much can be accomplished. Seri-
ous cases are recommended to the Orthopedic Clinic. The follow-up work
advised by the clinic is also carried on in these special classes, but that,
too, is handicapped by inadequate facilities. What is most necessary for
these pupils, however, is systematic physical education beginning in the
first grade to teach correct posture. At the same time exercises to
strengthen the muscles of posture and to counter-balance the excessive
amount of sitting necessary in school work, is absolutely essential. Such
work, to be effectual, needs trained supervision and whole-hearted co-opera-
tion from teachers. It is not possible to let these five hundred children
reach Junior High and then expect to straighten them out. Some of them
will have acquired permanent body defects by that time. The remainder
will form too large a proportion of the school enrollment to receive in-
dividual help. Correct posture is an individual- problem. Each pupil must
be placed in correct position by a skilled teacher, over and over again until
his muscles learn the feeling and it seems more natural than faulty posture.
This kind of help cannot be given in large classes. Moreover, unless the
children have had some practice in simple gymnastic exercises they are
very much harder to teach correct posture. If adequate posture facilities
and skilled supervision are not available until Junior High School, the
program is not on the best basis.

^At Junior High School there is every facility for good posture work,
but the problem is so large that there is not time for the excellent teaching
staff to handle it. The special camera is in constant use to make a graphic
record of cases needing attention. They stand as mute testimony to the in-
adequate program of the lower grades, where these cases originate and
where, under trained supervision, they could be cured.

The Orthopedic Clinic is of immense value. It acts as a constant
check on the work of training for posture in the lower grades. It stimu-
lates parents to co-operate on efforts to correct defects. It remedies serious
defects which could receive help in no other way. As a center for the
corrective work it is unifying all the physical education work of the town,
setting a high standard for all the departments to attain. With the as-
sistance of a practice teacher a program of supervision and posture train-
ing for the lower grades is being tried out. Before cases can be recom-
mended for clinical attention it is only reasonable to see if ordinary teach-
ing methods are not sufficient to meet the pupils needs. Therefore it is
necessary to start a teaching program. In many cases this has proved
sufficient to correct mild postural defects. At the same time pupils are
prepared to do better physical training* work when they reach the depart-
mental classes at Highland School. The program at Highland School has
been definitely co-ordinated wTith Junior High work so as to prepare the
pupils for their larger interests there.

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If the physical education department can be gradually developed
along these lines a continuous improvement in the health, appearance and
efficiency of the school children will be the reward.

JULIA E. LANCASTER,

Director of Remedial Gymnastics.

REPORT OF THE ART DEPARTMENT, 1928

sMIr. Adelbert L. Safford,

Superintendent of Schools,

Reading, Mass.

Dear Sir:

Herewith I submit my 7th annual report of the Art Department.

The major objective in the course of Art is the appreciation of
beauty which is being developed through knowledge of 'the basic laws that
control the appearances of nature and art. During the process of acquiring
such knowledge certain clearly defined attitudes, habits, and skills have
been developed in the children namely:

I Attitudes :

1 Respect for one’s own efforts.

2 Respect for the efforts of others.

3 Desire to create.

4 Joy in work and pride in doing it well.

5 Willingness to take the initiative.

6 Willingness to co-operate.

7 Enthusiastic use of graphic modes of expession.

8 Desire to improve.

II Habits :

1 Applying laws to everyday problems.

2 Seeking beauty in one’s environment.

3 Independent thinking.

4 Self-criticism of work.

5 Orderly procedure.

6 Intelligent purposeful collecting.

7 Seeking information from books, pictures and people.

8 Accuracy.

9 Discriminating observation.

Ill Skills:

1 Hand control.

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2 Control of pencils, erayons, brushes, scissors, lettering pens,
etc.

3 Selection or choice between good, poor, fine and mediocre.

The pupils are taught to love and appreciate beautiful line, pattern,
and color in textiles, in furniture, in pottery, and in all art subjects. It
is not necessary that they laboriously draw fine period furniture, but it is
necessary that they recognize the beauty in it. The children are becoming
acquainted with the world’s great masterpieces of painting, sculpture and
architecture. It is hoped that the pupils look for beauty instead of ugli-
ness and find happiness in doing so. Henry Ford, some few years ago,
said, “I would not give five cents for all the art in the world/’ He made
a ear on up and down lines and it went that way. It is rather interesting
to note that he has since spent twenty millions of dollars to get a little art
into his car.

Beauty undoubtedly has a great effect upon character and, while we
do not believe that all children reared in beautiful surroundings are neces-
sarily good, we do believe that their chances are better for being, good;
that if their lives are filled with beauty, if their eyes are trained to see
beauty, they haven’t time for ugly things. Beauty, truth, and goodness go
hand in hand.

A great deal of this work has been accomplished by lessons in lecture
form. The illustrative material used in connection with the lectures comes
from, my personal collection which has taken years to accumulate. Many
of the plates come from choice art books and magazines; many are large
photographs suitable for class work while others have been purchased on
my trips through Europe. For example, I have a picture of a finely de-
signed wrought iron gate, a photograph 'which reproduces a small part of
the exquisitely carved ceilings in one of the chateaux of France, pictures
of rare old lace with elegant pattern, gorgeously colored Italian pottery, and
many other things of similar nature. The classes seem to enjoy these im-
mensely.

iPerhaps the greatest need of art in the public schools is to teach the
thing called good taste. Unfortunately few people have this naturally.
Many times every day we are called upon for choices between good and
poor in design, in color, in arrangement. We must apply principles of art
and color, theory along with appropriateness, if we are to solve thesie prob-
lems correctly. This ability the pupils axe learning to acquire in all grades
through the study of art. They are being taught to apply the principles
as working tools whether in school or elsewhere.

The use of posters for advertising the school activities has increased
to such an extent that special attention is being given to this phase of the
school art work in the Junior High School and the Senior High School.
It involves tremendous amount of free hand drawing, design, composition,
color, and lettering. The boys and girls are showing some very fine drafts-
manship, originality and creative ability.

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Last year four girls, graduates of Beading High School, entered the
Massachusetts School of Art; after four years in this free state school they
will receive a degree and good positions, I am sure. One other graduate
entered the Vesper George School of Art. The year before last one girl
entered the Scott Oarbee School of Art and won a scholarship.

In concluding this report, I wish to express my sincere appreciation
to all the teachers, to Miss Emerson, my assistant, and to you, Mr. Salford,
for your interest and assistance.

Bespectfully submitted,

M. ADELINE LAHAISE.

REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF PENMANSHIP, 1928

Mr. Adelbert Salford, Superintendent of Schools, Reading, Mass.

Dear Mr. Safford:

I submit herewith my second annual report of the work of the Pen-
manship Department.

In my report of last year, I endeavored to bring out the importance
of writing! in our schools, and gave some of the essential points in establish-
ing a permanent foundation.

I am very happy to state that we are well started towards laying
this foundation.

All classes are supplied with the Zaner and Freeman books, and from
all reports, both teachers and pupils are enjoying them.

THE PRIMARY GRADES

Throughout our primary grades much enthusiasm is being shown by
teachers and pupils alike.

It is surprising to see how much progress has been made in one

year.

The first grades at the present time are doing some unusually fine
work. Last year, these grades covered the greater part of the small alpha-
bet and a few of the capital letters.

The third and fourth grades are earnestly striving to form the habit
of keeping a correct position in all written work. To help this cause along,
we are giving certificates of position and improvement in writing in these
grades.

One of the most important points to be developed in the first four
grades is rhythm. This is absolutely essential to develop speed and light-
ness of lines.

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To develop rhythm, we are using nursery rhymes, simple songs, or
poems instead of the usual method of counting. There are also many in-
teresting stories that we are using for developing the various letters and
bringing out the essential points of position. The children enjoy these
stories and rhymes greatly.

I have also used the victrola in connection with the writing lessons
a number of times during the past year.

Penmanship, to-day, is not the slow, uninteresting subject that it
was a number of years ago. The children thoroughly enjoy the work and
look forward to the lesson with great anticipation.

HIGHLAND INTERMEDIATE

The work in the fifth and sixth grades, last year, showed little prog-
ress, owning to certain difficulties encountered.

However, this year, these difficulties have been overcome and marked
progress is already being shown. The children are interested and enthusias-
tic.

Last year the writing was so low in standard that no certificate test
was given until June, and then, only four students passed.

This year, the first test was given early in December and fifteen
students passed and will receive the Grammar Grade Certificate.

It is the wish of the supervisor to lay a secure foundation in the
primary grades so that the majority of the pupils in grades five and six
aray be able to attain the standards now required in the Junior High School.
In this case, penmanship, in time, may be eliminated to a certain extent
in grades seven and eight except for a possible clinic for those who find
handwriting exceedingly difficult and for those whose writing drops in
quality.

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Penmanship in the seventh and eighth grades is being carried on
with most gratifying results as shown by the number of certificates awarded
this past year.

118 Grammar Grade Certificates
56 High School or Business Certificates
6 Advanced Certificates

To receive the Grammar Grade Certificate, a student must have a
standard of at least 70%. To receive the High or Business Certificate, a
standard of at least 80%, and to receive the Advanced, a standard of at
least 90%.

The Advanced Certificate is the highest award that can be given a
student in handwriting.

When a student passes the test for the High or Business Certificate,
or as I explained above, a standard of at least 80%, he may be excused from

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the penmanship work but must submit a paper every week that is written
in some other class. Should that pupil’s writing drop below the 80% mark,
he must return to the class work in penmanship until he has again reaehed
the standard for being excused.

I might state here that this idea was presented to me by Mr. Blais-
dell and it is working out with great success.

It is very gratifyingi to a penmanship teacher to receive etuch ex-
cellent co-operation from the principal.

(Speed and quality tests have been frequently given in all classes
this past year to see that the writing comjjares favorably with the chart
standards issued by penmanship authorities.

I feel that a secure foundation has been established in our seventh
and eighth grades and that even greater results will be obtained in the
future.

In closing this report, let me thank both teachers and principals who
have contributed towards making the past year a successful one; the stu-
dents for loyalty and you, Mr. Salford, for your faith, counsel and con-
structive helpfulness at all times.

Respectfully submitted,

MAROARET A. CAMERON,

Supervisor of Penmanship*

REPORT OF THE SUPERVISOR OF MUSIC, 1928

Mr. Adelbert L. Salford, Superintendent of Schools, Reading, Mass.

Dear Mr. Salford:

It gives me pleasure to submit to you my first report as music
supervisor of the first seven grades. In so doing, I wish to express my ap-
preciation of the splendid spirit of co-operation found among the grad©
teachers.

We have heard many times, and from experience, know it to be true,
that a person gains happiness and relaxation by listening to good music.
How much happier, then, is the person who can, himself, produce this music,
either vocally or instrumentally.

It is believed that there is potential music in every child. It is,
therefore, the duty and privilege of the fmusie teacher to help each child
to feel the desire to express himself musically, and to teach him how to
do it, thus building1 for a happier nation.

It has been my desire to establish a definite gradation of work, so
that each year the child may feel the delight of building upon knowledge
already his. With the assistance of the teachers, this will be fairly well ac-
complished by next September.

In the first and second grades the children must be taught to hear
a. soft, lovely tone correctly, and to produce a similar tone. If care is taken
here, the monotones in the higher grades will be few. In these grades
special attention has been given to rhythmic work, by means of singing
grimes, action songs and folk dances. This rhythm has been continued in
some of the third and fourth grades, by having the children draw to some
familiar song. This has been enjoyed, and greater proficiency will be
.gained with continued practice.

Each lesson should be a lesson in music appreciation. That is, the
children’s attention should be called to the text of the song, and how they
can best express; it with their singing. In addition, there has been specific
appreciation work; such as the recognition of different rhythms, how cer-
tain rhythms make us feel, listening for definiite things, learning voices and
instruments. The purpose of this is to furnish musical tools that may be
used to enjoy music heard anywhere.

The work in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades must necessarily be
partly drill. In these grades they enjoy discovering their new' problems
apd qolving their difficulties. The pupils of the fourth grades have made
individual key charts, which have helped them in learning the names of
the lines and spaces, finding “do,” and in interval study. This year, in
the fifth and sixth grades, the program has prevented much group work;
therefore, the pupils, in a chorus of one hundred and fifty, have been unable
to have the necessary drill work. I strongly urge, that next year the time
allotment be so divided that there is more individual group work, writh only
one chorus period a week.

On the other hand, Mr. Blaisdell wisely divided the seventh grades
of the Junior High School into six groups, meeting twice a week, with one
chorus period. This has enabled them to do excellent two and three part
work, and to have time for music appreciation as well.

There are some children, who, because of mental or physical handi-
caps, will never make good singers, but who can, and do, respond to rhythm,
^ake, for example, the Opportunity School. The older pupils there have
made drums from flower pots, Indian rain rattles from boxes, sounding
boards from wood covered with sand paper, and with a few bells, have the
nucleus of a crude rhythmic orchestra. They are learning team work by
playing together, obedience in following the leader, and gaining confidence
in themselves, and pride in their accomplishment. These orchestras are
splendid in the first three grades. The value of them is far reaching. I
hope that soon we may be able to have them in the lower grades.

It .would be advisable and profitable to furnish supplementary books
for the lower grades. There are music books, recently published, which

aim to correlate music with the child’s social and school life, with art, and
physical culture. The better the correlation with other subjects, the more
music will become an integral part of the child.

In closing, I should like to quote from a recent lecture by Mr. Os
bourne McConathy, one of the editors of the Progressive Music Series, now
in use in our schools. “ During1 the next few years, there may develop a
great musical crisis. With the arrival of the radio, the phonograph, the
phototone, and the television, there is grave danger that the American youth
may become simply passive listeners, and not participators in music, whifch
should be a part of them. It is for the music teacher to guard against
this in every possible way.’’

(Finally, let me thank you, Mr. Safford, for your sympathetic interest
and kindly assistance.

Respectfully submitted,

MARGARET E. WHITTIER.

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

Mr. Adelbert L. Salford, Superintendent of Schools, Reading, Mass.

Dear Sir:

I am submitting my yearly report for the year ending December 31,

1928.

The purpose of the American High School is being expanded. Today
it is planned for all the children of all the people who show themselves able
to profit by an education prolonged to the eighteenth or nineteenth year and
whose parents are able to support them while they remain in school so long.
Today the position is taken that the high school should offer a program
of studies sufficiently varied so that ail children will have the opportunity
to engage in profitable educative activities. The responsibility of the mod-
ern high school does not end here. It gtoes beyond instructing its pupils
in mere subjects. It is expected to guide them in selecting vocational activ-
ities after they leave school. This new and elaborate system is a far de-
parture from the old high school system which functioned only for the in-
tellectual aristocracy. Of course such a comprehensive scheme carries with
it many new problems, an important and difficult one being standards of
scholarship. Some parents look upon the high school as an avenue to col-
lege ; others expect the high school to prepare pupils directly for office posi-
tions; while still others look upon the high school as a place where their
children can be kept happy and busy until they are' able to fend for them-
selves, can be sent to so-called finishing schools or become old enough to

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drop into the ordinary domestic and social stream of life. Thus with so
many varied views the ^school must have a carefully thought out policy of
its own, one particularly adapted to its own community and one which will
prescribe to the permanent advantage of most of its pupils and prepare them
for a wider and better life. Excellent results have been obtained in the
various departments of the Beading High School with all pupils who have
brought to the school a reasonable amount of character, industry and in-
tellect.

1928 Graduates

The total number of graduates were ninety-six. Of this number
three are at home and four unaccounted for. The remainder of the group

is distributed as follows:

Post Graduates 7

Normal Schools 7

Music 2

Fitting Schools 12

Business Colleges 5

Office Positions 25

Nurse 1

Physical Education 1

College 14

General Work 14

Married 1

Thus it becomes evident that the school is functioning properly in all
its departments. Approximately one-fourth of the students of the graduat-
ing class are in office positions, due to their commercial training. Approxi-
mately a quarter of the students are found in higher institutions of learn-
ing, including college and normal school, and a great many of those doing
so-called general work are those who use as a basis for their work the
commercial education which they have received, preferring to begin work
in other departments than the office. Of the twelve to be found in fitting
schools eight did not take the college course and the four who did take the
college course did such poor wTork that they could not be certified or recom-
mended for examinations.

Eight students took the College Board Examinations. Of that num-
ber twTo took the so-called Competitive Examinations; that is, they were in
competition with hundreds of students for a rank high enough to be listed
within this year’s college quota; two took the so-called Comprehensive Ex-
aminations, and the other four took the Old Plan Examinations. Of those
taking the College Board Examinations three had honors in Mathematics
and one had honors in Latin. The colleges in which last year’s graduates
are this year’s Freshmen are Harvard, Boston University, Wellesley, Middle-
bury, Badeliffe, Bowdoin, Dartmouth, Smith and University of Mlaine.

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Not only are the students well prepared for the fields in which they
are interested but they do excellent work in these fields. We have had this
year, as usual, many flattering comments on the quality of our commercial
graduates, and the fact that we have honor students in Radcliffe, Clark
University, Dartmouth, Smith, and Harvard, is an indication that our
students are well prepared.

Faculty

While it is undoubtedly true that the Reading High School Faculty
suffered considerable loss by the resignation of Mrs. Lyla R. Davis, Mr.
Russell P. Taylor and Mr. C. Francis Woods, it is a source of great satis-
faction to note that the vacancies occasioned by these resignations have
been very well filled by the addition to the faculty of Miss Josephine Bar-
low, Mr. Charles M. Gates and Mr. Edward L. Mac Arthur. It would seem
from the work thus far produced by these new teachers that the high
standard will be maintained.

Health

Health is always an important factor but I knowr of no age of
childhood to which health plays such an important part as the adolescent
age. While this period begins in the Junior High School it is really not
in full swing in most cases until the pupils reach the Senior High Schpol.
It is for the health reasons that I urge you to do all you can to improve
the facilities for serving lunch, and also to improve the locker1 room accom-
modations. While the girls’ locker room is fairly convenient there is op-
portunity there for improvement. The boys ’ locker room, due to the fact
that our Physical Instructor, Mr. Aldred, is doing an excellent piece of
work in inducing a large number of boys to participate in the various ath-
letic sports, is sadly in need of re-arrangement. Lockers of some sort
should be provided. This should include enlarging, if possible, the locker
room space. In order to do this it may become necessary to provide lockers
in other parts of the building to accommodate the outside wraps.

In connection with the above it might be well to state that while ex-
ercise, physical development, and co-ordination of mind and muscles is the
chief objectives in football and basketball, it is always an additional satis-
faction to have a winning team. Last year’s basketball and football teams
were very successful in winning their share of athletic contests.

Tests

The High School is co-operating more closely each year with the De-
partment of Standards and Guidance. While undoubtedly the major work
of this department lies in the grades and the Junior High School, never-
theless we feel the need of its co-operation. Practically all students ex-
cept those coming from other towns have been tested several times by the
Department of Standards and Guidance. These tests are of tremendous
value to us in determining the proper courses for students to take in the
Senior High School. The results of these tests are also valuable as a check
against the teachers’ marks. We also are using a great many standard

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tests, prognostic tests, progressive tests, and hurdle tests. These tests are
of extreme value in determining our standards as compared with that of
other schools. We axe using these tests extensively in Mathematics, Eng-
lish, Latin, and History.

Opportunity Groups

The widespread use of intelligence tests in the Reading Schools,
coupled with achievement and teacher ratings, has emphasized individual
differences and made us aware that many children do not possess the neces-
sary capacity to pursue successfully the usual courses. In order that these
pupils may he included in the plan for universal secondary education they
have in certain subjects been placed in special groups. Mr. Guarnaecia,,
appointed by the School Board last year, teaches these groups, along line's
laid out by the Standards and Guidance Department and the Principal. It
gives me pleasure to say that the mortality among1 these pupils has been
extremely small and their achievement exceedingly encouraging.

Vocational Opportunities

If we are to continue profitably the splendid policy which you and
the School Board stand for in that you desire to provide for certain types
of pupils who, in former years, were not admitted to high school, it becomes
evident that the High School must expand its vocational work. We are
sadly in need of more equipment and better quarters for Manual Training.
One solution might be to have the High School students go to the Highland
School for their work in Manual Training. The quarters there are larger
and better, and if a few pieces of power machinery could be installed the
work could be vastly improved. The objection to having the High School
work at the Highland School is the necessity of travel between the two
schools by groups of boys taking the work. Classes going back and forth
between buildings always present difficulties but these difficulties are not
necessarily unsurmountable. I also believe that a department never func-
tions so well if it is removed from the main center.

I believe that if our Cooking and Sewing Departments were in the
High School building they would be more popular. Efforts should be made
to make these departments, — that is, the Cooking and Sewing Departments,
— more popular, more interesting and more valuable to our girls.

Delinquency

If one is to believe the statistics quoted so often in magazines and
papers, youthful delinquency is on the increase. The old policy of students
attending school regardless of what they got out of it is; no longer tenable.
Schools today must function in such a way that the student upon leaving
has in his possession certain marketable skills. These skills may be pro-
ficiency in the scholastics, in Agriculture, in commercial subjects, in Art,
in Science, Manual Training or Domestic Science. Whatever the interests
of the individual may be they should be so developed that they are market-
able.

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Spoken English :

Due to various reasons, largely because of the lack of time and the
seeming importance of other subjects, Spoken English does not receive the1
attention that it should. This is not only true in the Beading High Sdhoo!
but in most High Schools about us;. I hope it will be possible soon to in-
crease the number of teachers on our staff so that at least one teacher can
devote part time to this important subject. We do considerable work withy
Spoken English in our plays and operettas but not enough. I feel that the
plays and operettas are very valuable in developing poise, improving dic-
tion, making for clearer enunciation, and also in developing personality.,
In producing these plays and operettas we include as many students ap
possible. HowTever, it is impossible to include the entire school and, there-
fore, some pupils, and possibly those who need it most, do not get. this,
training. The debates sponsored by the League of Women Voters, are . of
great value for those who are in them and an inspiration to those who
hear them. • . ,

Library

Another very important addition to the Beading High School would
be a well-equipped library and a library teacher. We need many mp^e
reference books quickly accessible to the students and, of course, organized,,
cataloged and supervised by an efficient library teacher. It is possible, to, ,
combine the work of a library teacher and a teacher of Slpoken English.; , ...

Bespeetfully submitted,

RUDOLF SUSSMAN, Principal.

REPORT OF AGRICULTURAL INSTRUCTOR

Mr. Rudolf Sussmann, Director Agricultural Department,

Beading High School, Beading, Mass.

Dear Sir:

I take pleasure in submitting to you my fourth report of the work
of the Agricultural Department. '

The department has followed the prescribed course of study approved
by the State Department of Vocational Education. The major subjects
taught from January to September were Dairying and Market Gardening.
FTom September on for the balance of the school year the majors will be
Orcharding and Poultry Keeping. Along wdth the major subjects we plan
to give a secondary or survey course which covers seasonable jobs and
economic developments of interest. Much of the material for this work is
taken from agricultural papers and livestock journals, catalogs, and the
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poultry and livestock associations, as well as bulletins and Experiment Sta-
tion publications. Much of the information from these sources is more
timely and modem than that we find in text books. Then we plan to get
out on the job for actual work all we can.

In most cases the boys followed through with their projects and
supervised work, nine completing ownership projects and eighteen super-
vised work. This year we were able to provide an extra course in Automo-
bile Repairing at the end of which the following concise report was made:

Ten boys in the Agricultural class had a three months’ course in
automobile mechanics and repairs under Mr. O. L. Dickinson. The boys were
in the shop three hours a day four days a week. The course covered the
theory of automobile construction, repairs, ignition, and maintenance. Most
of the work was done on Ford ears, but some practice was obtained on Chev-
rolet, Maxwell, Dodge, Studebaker, and Pierce Arrow, also on Fordson trac-
tors, so that all types of cars except the Knight engine were handled. Be-
sides working on the regular jobs which came into the shop the boys re-
built and repaired several cars for themselves.

It is an interesting fact that much of the material used was salvaged
from wrecks and junk and made into creditable looking cars. The boys
also assisted in the construction of a “running in stand” and other per-
manent improvements for the shop. No figures are available for the general
work done in the shop but for the boys’ own work we have the following:

Value of labor at regular rates $242.00

Value of new parts used 54.93

Value of salvaged parts used 77.50

Value created remaining with shop 75.00

Total cost of course to Town 144.00

On the whole this course was a very profitable one for the class, filling in
the time when little agricultural work can be done, teaching the kind of
work which every man who handles motors must know, and also showing
the value of salvaged material in repairing old machinery and making it
usable. This course is to be repeated in 1929.

Financially the year was the most profitable for the boys themselves
of any since I have taught here. The total number of boys enrolled for
1927-28 was 19. Those completing the year were eleven. The number of
graduates was one. The total number of hours worked amounted to 10.959.
Amount earned in Agricultural work was $3,388.75. Amount earned in
shop work, $294.50. Total earned by students in the Agricultural Course,
$3683.25. High man, Malcolm Bredbury, earned $429.70. Seven earned
over $200.00 each and four earned over $300.00 each. Total number of
students in the course January 1, 1929, was twenty-one.

In the past year the boys have remodeled two poultry houses and
built one new one. Several of them have taken quite extensive jobs of
pruning and orchard renovation besides many small jobs done in school
hours as practicums.

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Last May the Department sent a stock judging team to the State
Championship Contest at Massachusetts Agricultural College. They did
good consistent work but did not capture any prizes. When we learned
that some of the winners had done nothing but judge cattle for several
weeks we did not feel quite so badly, for it seems hardly worth while to
spend so much time in preparation for a contest of this kind when we are
not in a dairy section.

In September the boys struck their winning streak. Fletcher was
placed second in stock judging at Topsfield Fair. E. Munnis and McKeague
won a special award at Reading Grange Flair. Robert Wheeler with his
brother took two firsts and a second at Reading1 Poultry Show, while Bell
won a first, a second, and a sweepstakes at the Boston Poultry Show. In
all the cash and prizes amount to over $25.00 in value. The department
also provided part of the Vocational Agricultural Exhibit at the Union
Agricultural meeting at Worcester.

The boys in the department are doing good work and sticking to it
clear through. This year we should have four graduates. They are doing
their part in school activities and taking their share of school honors. We
have three letter men in football and the captain of the basketball team is
in our department.

A survey of former students made last fall showed several who have
become very successful greenhousemen and market gardeners. A number
are in poultry, fruit, and dairying who are doing well. All these men
paid high tribute to the training they received in the Agricultural Depart-
ment. Several expressed the opinion that we should find some way to give
more training in Floriculture as that is becoming one of the big industries
of this town.

During the past year we have had an increasing number of requests
for help and advice from the people of the town. This is very gratifying.
It is just what we are here for and the students of this department and
your instructor will gladly be of service whenever possible.

Respectfully submitted,

HERMON T. WHEELER,

Agricultural Instructor.

READING HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES
Class of 1928

Shepardson Hall

Thursday evening, June Fourteen
at eight o’clock

PROGRAM

PRIESTS MARCH FROM ATHALIA
PRAYER— Rev. Charles F. Lancaster
CHORUS— Devotion

Senior Class

Salutatory

SKIRTED SUCCESS

Esther Emily Malonson
VIOLIN SOLO— A Flower of Italy

Louis Levine

Accompanied by William Goodwin Day

TORCH ORATION

Malcolm Edward Weeks, President, Class 1928
ESSAY — Louis Pasteur

Isabelle Gould Parker, Class Honors

TRIO

Kenneth William Henehey
Sara Gould Hamden, Virginia Nodding

ESSAY — The Present Day Foes of Democracy

Boyd Harrison Parker, Faculty Honors

CHORUS — Triumphal March from Aida

Senior Class

Valedictory

THE LADDER

• Eleanor Boit Crafts

CONFERRING DIPLOMAS

Carl M. Spencer, Chairman of School Board
CLASS ODE — Words by Alice Victoria Hodson
BENEDICTION— Rev. Marion F. Ham
EXIT MARCH— Militaire

High School Orchestra

Edith Marion Woods, School Honors, highest average rank,
for Valedictory as two years was in another school.

M'endelssohn

Mascagni

D ’Agastino

Verdi

Schubert
Not eligible

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CANDIDATES FOR DIPLOMAS, 1928

Accounting Course

Harry A. Copeland Helen Dorothy Gowing

Mary Rita Flaherty Addis Alma Jones

Agricultural Course

Warren Luce Munnis

Harold Nickerson Boyle
Eleanor Boit Crafts
Edward Francis Halligan
Sara Gould Hamden
Kenneth William Henehey
Frank Richmond Heselton
Alice Victoria Hodson
Frank Howard
Evelie L. Irving

College Course

Alfred Kimball
Warren Kimball
Jesse Whitman Mbrton, Jr,
Arthur Edward Moyer
George Albert Mussells, Jr.
Boyd Harrison Parker
Isabelle Gould Parker
Evelyn Frances Remick
Louis Riseman 4

Commercial Course

Iris Lillian Birnie
Doris Raye Brown
Lois Cheney
Genevieve Louise Coron
Katherine Frances Doherty
Ruth Field
Doris Perry Gleason
Carrie May Jones

Edith Elver a Lindquist
Margaret Mason Lindsay
Esther Emily Malonson
T helma McClintock
Berenice Parker
Ethel Marie Pratt
Ruth Gertrude Stevens
Ruth Marion Wilkinson

General Course

Naida Harriet Ainsworth
Grace Alberta Black
Mary Claire Brennan
Eugene Herman Bronson
Francis Daniel Canty
Dorothy Kathleen Chase
William Goodwin Day
Agnes B. Desmond

A. Roger Hickey
Sidney Harold Lassell
John J. Doherty
Arthur Lawrence Doiron
Donald P. Gray
Thomas James Greene
Ethel Doris Griswold
E. Lillian Hamden

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W. Gordon Sargent
Wilbur Smith Sias, Jr.
Gilbert Mills Soule
Charles Newhall Sweet3er
Faith Winslow Thaxter
George R. White
Lincoln Alvin Whitehouse
Anna A. Williams
William Henry Willson, Jr.
Eileen Frances Wilson
Elizabeth Hildur Yunghans

Normal Course

Eleanor Wright Lovering
Arthur Ernest Marchetti
Angus E. R. McLeod
Kenneth O. Morrison
Frances Eleanor Nash
Virginia Nodding
Alberta Louise O’Brien
John Edward Palmer
Richard A. Pomfret
Elaine T. Buggies
Mary Eyland

Dorothy Mary Babine
Dorothy Seward Barnes
Miriam Leora Blood
Helen Alberta Bredbury
Florence Louise Estabrook
Marjorie Lucie Hayward
Harold Laurence Henchey

Edith

Evelyn Mae Holmes
Louis Levine
Mary Carolyn Lewis
Helen Arie Bichardson
Lucille G. Ware
Malcolm Edward Weeks
Albert Lewis Wellman, Jr.

Marion Woods

Scientific Course

Balph Wendell Burhoe George Joseph Biley, Jr.

Alfred F. Staeger, Jr.

Secretarial Course
Phyllis Marion Gray

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE WALTER S. PARKER JUNIOR
HIGH SCHOOL 1928

Mr. A. L. Safford, Beading, Mass.

Dear Sir:

' I take pleasure in submitting to you my sixth annual report as
Principal of the Reading Junior High School.

A new school building is like a new house in that it requires a year
of occupancy to make it thoroughly livable. This has been true of the
Walter S. Parker Junior High School and many needs have presented them-
selves, mostly in the way of equipment. Many of those needs have been
taken care of, and the others are receiving the attention of the School
Committee as rapidly as finances permit.

The present enrollment of the Junior High School is five hundred
and forty-three, which is an increase of thirty-seven pupils over that of last
year. Increased enrollment without an additional teacher necessitated larger
groups this year. Although this has not been a serious problem yet, the size
of the class rooms will not permit the class groups to further increase to
any extent. It will, therefore, undoubtedly be necessary to plan for an
additional teacher at the Junior High School next year.

Believing that pupils can become good citizens only by practicing
citizenship, it has always been a policy of our school to encourage pupil
participation in school management in every way possible. Particular stress
has been given to this policy this year in the organization of the cafeteria.
In accordance with a plan presented by a special committee of the student
council under teacher supervision, the pupils have been allowed to form
their own groups around the tables in the cafeteria. Each group through
its self-appointed host or hostess is responsible to one teacher in charge of
the cafeteria. This means that the group at each table constitutes a self
organized unit responsible for the conduct of its members. The teacher
in charge of the cafeteria meets the hosts and hostesses at regular inter-
vals, at the end of the lunch period. This is important. It provides an
opportunity for those pupils to discuss their problems and serves as a clear-
ing house for bright ideas. Pupils of junior high school agb may not have
the mature judgment and stability to carry out such a plan all by them-
selves, but they can do a good deal with a little help, if given a chance.

It is very gratifying to observe the splendid spirit and effectiveness
with which the pupils are co-operating with this plan. Recent visitors from
a nearby city were kind enough to say that it was the best bit of cafeteria
student organization that they had seen in operation. It has of course re-
quired a great deal of preliminary work on the part of the teachers in es-
tablishing a standard of conduct. Assembly talks;, in some cases by pupils,
have helped in making clear the need for organization, in creating a co-
operative attitude and a feeling of responsibility.

The fundamental principle involved is that any organized group is
a co-operative enterprise. It necessitates certain obligations, and some
times a curtailment of personal desires on the part of its members:. In
return, the organized group makes possible conditions that are for the
mutual benefit of all. The task for us as teachers is not only to make that
principle clear to the pupil, but in some way to get it to function in action
as a part of the pupil's developing philosophy of life. A large portion of
this report deals with efforts that are being made to make that principle
vital in the life of the Junior High School.

Student organization for some time has operated in the supervision
of the corridors during the short interval between classes and during the
ten minute free time at the end of the lunch periods. That organization
has centered in a traffic squad functioning under the Department of Safety.

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Even while this report is being written, some changes are being made in
the plan for corridor supervision which ought to make the student organiza-
tion much more effective than heretofore. Under the new plan all traffic
officers, at least for the rest of the year, are to be selected from the Leaders
Club organized by one of the Physical Directors, Mr. Althoff. The traffic
officers are to meet every day during the second lunch period as a committee
under the guidance of the club sponsor, Mr. Althoff, for the following pur-
poses. First, to consider the cases of pupils who have been asked to ap-
pear before the committee in answer to charges of not complying with the
traffic regulations, which are as simple and reasonable as possible though
very definite. Second, to consider preventive measures to be used in the cases
of pupils who do not display a co-operative attitude in the corridors to
the end that they may not become positive offenders.

Here again wise guidance is necessary. Pupils offend in many cases
because they do not appreciate the necessity of controlling their desires and
impulses when they conflict with the best interests of the group. They
have not learned to play the game according to the rules. They do not
distinguish between “Freedom’’ and “License” — “Freedom,’’ being de-
fined as the privilege of each individual to do what is best for his own
welfare and the welfare of the group; “License,” being defined as one's
tendency to follow his own wishes or desires regardless of how they effect
others — a very selfish attitude.

Successful student participation in school organization is not an easy
achievement. It is justified, however, if it contributes a control that comes
froan within the child because he recognizes his relationship to the social
group, and is not imposed from without through compulsion. This does
not mean that compulsion does not play a part in school management as
a means of temporary restraint. It does not effect a cure, however, unless
the attitude and point of view are changed.

What should be done with the troublesome pupil who for some rea-
son does not live up to his responsibilities as a member of a social group?
This type of pupil, of course, reaps but never sows. He enjoys the freedom
and advantages which the social group provides without any reciprocation.
He does not play the game according to the rules.

Our past method of dealing with this type of pupil has been to force
him by punishment to conform to school regulations, or to talk to the pupil
in an effort to make him see his obligations. This method has its weak-
nesses in that punishment is apt to arouse resentment without a change of
attitude, and mere talking or friendly advice too often lacks the reality
of experience. We are finding it very effective in many cases to completely
isolate such pupils from their group and school activities for an indefinite
period. The offender is asked to report to a room provided for pupils who
are not in good standing as school citizens, and does all of his work under
the direction of the teacher in charge. The pupil experiences for the first
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as a member of the group. The experience is an unpleasant one and it does
not take long for the pupil to seek re-instatement. At this point again
wise guidance is imperative and the guidance teacher must be ready with
an accurate diagnosis of the case and a definite knowledge of wherein the
pupil fails to play the game according to the rules. In this process both
experience and advice play leading parts in helping the pupil to properly
adjust himself to organized group life.

Quoting from last year’s report “The junior high school in practice
is doing a good deal toward eliminating the distinction commonly recognized
between the so-called extra-curricular activities and the other activities of
the curriculum. From the point of view of self activity (learning by doing),
interest, and co-operative learning, these special activities possess exceptional
educational values/’ Furthermore, they are often indicative of special abili-
ties in pupils that suggest vocational possibilities. These activities or clubs,
which are scheduled this year the third period on Tuesday, are listed aisj
follows: Aviation Club, Sketching Club, two Dramatic Clubs, Nature Club,
French Club, Penmanship Club, a Leaders dub for boys and one for girls,
the Parker Quill Editorial Staff, the G-lee dub, and the Orchestra. The club
work is not compulsory and it is: this year limited to the eighth and ninth
grades. Pupils who do not take the club work are assigned to the study
hall during that period.

During the Tuesday club period, the seventh grade pupils meet with
their home room teachers. The activities for this period are planned to
contribute to character building! and good citizenship. The pupils are en-
couraged to supply as much of the program as possible, and the materials
used are largely of the following nature: (1) Poetry and stories with a
strong emotional appeal; (2) biography that can capitalize the factor of
hero worship; (3) pageants and short plays; (4) short compositions writ-
ten by the pupils that contribute to the purpose of the period; (5) school
and class organization is thoroughly considered and an effort made to in-
culcate the ideas suggested above in the discussion of pupil participation
in school organization. In fact, it is hoped that this guidance period will
act as a kind of preliminary training school for a student body that learns
to become good citizens by being good citizens.

A good deal of attention this year is being given by the physical direc-
tors' to the problem of posture correction. Pupils with posture defects
were discovered through the physical examinations given by the school
physician, with the parents’ consent. Exercises for the ordinary posture
defects are prescribed and supervised by the physical directors. Unusual
cases are referred to the clinic located at the G-rouard House. The super-
visors are limited in the corrective work, because the exercises require a
great deal of time for supervision. In many cases, the physical director
has asked that certain exercises be done regularly at home under parental
supervision. In such cases, however, the pupils are checked at regular in-
tervals for progress.

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It is of course true that the success of any school cannot rise abovu
the ability and -willingness of its teaching corps to carry out the policies of
the school, which are in part promulgated by the teachers themselves. It is
therefore essential to retain teachers of proved ability, and to provide ade-
quate inducements to attract the best candidates for vacancies that arise.
The Junior High School is a recognized unit of the secondary school, and
the teacher reqquirements are certainly as exacting as in the Senior High
School. I feel very strongly that the same possibility for advancement
should exist in both units of the secondary school on the basis of similar
training and experience. That possibility already does exist for the men
teachers of both schools. It is quite desirable that it should also exist for
the women teachers.

Respectfully submitted,

RAYMOND W. BLAISDELL.

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE CENTRAL PRIMARY
SCHOOLS, GRADES 1-4 AND THE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL,
GRADES 5-6, 1928

Mr. Adelbert L. Safford, Superintendent of Schools, Reading, Mass.

Dear Sir:

I hereby submit my annual report as Principal of the Union St.,
Center, and Highland Schools.

The organization of these schools is the same as last year with the
exception that another room was opened in the Center School.

In the first grades at the Union St. School, the Courtis Smith Pic-
ture-Story Reading Method which was adopted last year has proved very
satisfactory. By this method the children “ learn by doing.” They not only
learn to read well and quicker by this method but the handwork which goes
with the system trains them in drawing and in ability to follow directions.
It also trains them in self-reliance and »oncentration and habits of neatness
and order. This method also permits each child to progress as rapidly as his
ability will permit.

Last year there were only five of the ninety pupils who entered the
first grade who were not promoted to the second grade and these would
probably have been promoted but for illness or continued absence.

This method which was first used in Detroit is comparatively new in
Massachusetts so that superintendents, principals and teachers have visited
this building to see this method in operation. The records show that there

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were seventy-four visitors representing thirty-two towns and cities. All the
visitors have been very enthusiastic about the work which isi being1 done by
the pupils and the method has since been adopted in some of their schools.

Next year we hope to carry this method more extensively into the.
second grades.

Two students from the Lesley Normal School have been training in
this building.

There were so many pupils for the second, third, and fourth grades
that it was necessary to open another room at the Center School. We were
fortunate in securing for this room Miss Perkins, a graduate from Salem
Normal School, who trained in the Highland School last year.

Miss Helen Quinlan who has taught so successfully for many years
resigned in June to be married. This was a gtreat loss to the school but
Miss Winchester, a graduate from Salem Normal School, who trained under
Miss Quinlan last year, was elected for her room so the work is being
carried on in a very satisfactory manner.

Silent reading is being specially stressed in these grades. By the
use of tests with the Thought Test Readers the teacher checks up for com-
prehension as well as for vocabulary.

As in the past years, students from the Salem Normal School are
training in this building.

There were so many pupils entering the first grade at the Highland
School that it was necessary to do some redistricting and send some to the
Union St. School where there was more room.

)The Oourtis-Smith Method of Reading was introduced in this room
this year and the pupils are progressing rapidly but would do better if
they could be in a room by themselves and not with the second grade.

The work in the third and fourth grades is being carried on very
successfully. A student from the Lesley Normal School has trained in the
second gtade and one from the Salem Normal School is training in the third
and fourth grade room as well as those training in the fifth and sixth
grades.

The work of the Intermediate School which includes all the fifth and
sixth grades is departmentalized as last year although many changes have
been made in the program and the periods are longer. This has been imlore
satisfactory as it eliminates studj7 periods and the written work is under
the supervision of the teacher who specializes in that subject. Miss Whit-
tier was elected supervisor of music in the grades and Mrs. Blaisdell of the
Junior High faculty was elected to fill the vacancy. She is also assistant
to the principal and with her former experience in the Highland School
as well as her experience in the Junior High School, has given valuable as-
sistance in organizing and carrying out many new plans.

The 11 Individual Method” so called was begun last year by the
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pupil studies only the words lie does not know liow to spell and progresses;
according to liis own ability.

This year the Individual Method is being used in teaching Arith-
metic. By means of assignments the pupil progresses at his own rate of
speed so the rapid pupil is not held back nor the slow one pushed ahead
beyond his ability to comprehend. Frequent tests are given so the teacher
knows whether the pupil understands the work. If the pupil passes the
test ninety per cent or ninety-five per cent he takes the next assignment
which has more difficult problems. The teacher then gives each pupil who
does not pass the test the special drill he needs.

In the sixth grades History is being taught by the problem method.
Each pupil is provided with A Students Work Book in Backgrounds of
American History. By this method the pupil is led to see that history is a
record of the problems people have had to meet in the past. In solving
over again these problems, he finds the story of the development of our
country more interesting. This method includes reading of references, con-
sideration of questions in the notebook and writing answers in notebook.

Language is also being taught by the assignment method in the sixth
grade by a plan similar to the Miller plan of the 0. B. and A. assignments.
The C. assignment is required of every one. When the pupil finishes the 0.
assignment, he may do the B. and A. assignments.

This year a course in Science was introduced in these grades. The
aim of this course is to familiarize the child with the common plants and
animals and their importance in man’s life, also to study some of the ap-
plications of physical science in the play life of the child.

The Library method of teaching reading is being used. The aims of
this method are the same as any other method but the chief aim is to teach
a love of reading. A small library of books is supplied each room and in
addition some are furnished by the town library. Each pupil selects one
that he likes and reads it silently and reads some incident for the benefit
of the class.

In June 121 pupils received one or more “ five-book’ * reading certi-
ficates and 17 pupils received Honor certificates for reading twenty books.
One pupil received two Honor certificates and two pupils received three
Honor certificates. These certificates were presented by one of the trustees
of the public library.

Once a week in connection with the teaching of civics and citizen-
«hip a lesson in thrift has been given. Not only the saving of money but
the saving of time and materials has been stressed. The pupils of the
fifth and sixth grades kept a record of their savings for a month and re-
ported that they had saved from allowances and earnings $669.89. Be-
sides the money saved by the stamp bank at the school many had saved in
the Savings Banks and Co-operative Bank. The boys earned their money
by doing errands, being caddies and working in stores, earning up to $2 a
week. The girls have allowances or earn money at home or by doing er-
irands from twenty-five cents to one dollar a week.

179

Special stress has been given to the teaching of Health. A very
definite program has been arranged and a full set of reference books given
to each class. Besides the study of health habits which promote growth and
health, a study is made of classes of foods, their source and value of each.
In order to stimulate more interest, a Health Magazine is being edited by
each class. This magazine includes the best essays and drawings which
have been done by the class thus correlating this work with the English
and Art departments. Besides this each child has his individual notebook.

A new feature in our health education is the work being done by
Miss Lancaster of the High School faculty. She not only supervises the
physical training in the first six grades but she has charge of the postural
needs of these grades. By posture tests which are given to all the pupils
she finds those who need remedial work. Once a week these are given in-
struction and exercises which are followed up by daily work at home.

Many children have attended the posture clinic and two from thi3
district have been to the Winchester Hospital for treatment. Already
marked improvement has been shown not only physically but in their ability
to do their work better.

A student from Posse Nissen school is training under Miss Lancaster
and is giving class instruction in the primary grades.

The organization of the Opportunity School is the same as last year,
a primary group and an elementary group. These groups are small so that
individual instruction may be given. Good work has been accomplished in
both groups so that at the beginning of this year thirteen pupils went ba«k
to the regular classes of their grades.

Respectfully submitted,

M. GRACE WAKEFIELD.

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF THE LOWELL STREET SCHOOL

Mr. Adelbert L. Safford, Superintendent of Schools, Reading*, Mass.

Dear Sir:

Herewith I submit a report of the Lowell Street School for the year
ending December 31, 1928.

This is the second year that we have had the primary grades only, the
5th and 6th grades attending the Highland School as they did last year.
The present arrangement works out very well indeed, particularly on the
playground where the children, being so nearly of an age, play well to-
gether.

ISO

The number of children who bring their lunches is far less than
formerly since so many children are transported by bus to and from their
homes. This is gratifying as we feel they are better off for having a hot
meal at noon. The same bus was used to carry the children living on the
other side of Mineral Street Bridge while the latter was out of order.
These children were dismissed ten minutes early noon and night in order
that the bus could be back again in time toi convey the larger group that is
regularly carried through Grove and Franklin Streets to North Main Street.

Since September Miss Lancaster, the Physical Training teacher at
the High School, has made weekly visits to the school instructing, testing
and helping the children in good posture. Encouraging results have fol-
lowed. Those children who fail in the posture tests have the privilege and
opportunity of attending the Posture Clinic held once a month. It is neces-
sary to have the parent’s written consent before the child can take advan-
tage of this opportunity.

The Playground Apparatus consisting of see-saws, rope swings,
jumping standards and a trapeze has been repaired and re-painted. Sincere
appreciation is extended to Mr. Fred Merritt for his kindness in splicing
the ropes for us without charge.

One of the pupils from the Lesley Normal School has spent a month
this fall in the third grade for observation and practice teaching. For
three days she substituted in the second grade when the regular teacher
was ill and not able to be at school.

The year has been an especially happy and satisfactory one due to
the splendid attitude and co-operation on the part of the teachers.

Respectfully submitted,

NELLIE P. BEATON, Principal.

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DETAIL OF EXPENDITURES OF SCHOOL DEPARTMENT FOR
YEAR ENDING DEC. 31, 1928

T rans porta tion :

Eastern Mass. St. Ry. Co $ 37.50

Mason’s Bus & Taxi Service 5,356.00

$ 5,393.50

Tuition:

Middlesex County $ 158.57

$ 158.57

Books:

Allyn & Bacon . $ 136.65

American Book Co 182.55

D. Appleton & Co 6.54

Edward E. Babb & Co 379.31

Bacon & Vincent 1.40

Walter H. Baker Co 2.00

F. J. Barnard & Co., Inc 628.63

C. C. Birchard & Co 7.04

Bobbs Merrill Co 1.48

The Bookshop for Boys and Girls 51.55

The Boston Music Co 4.17

A. L. Burt Co .66

Mentzer Bush & Co 2.50

The Century Co 12.12

M. F. Charles 1.00

The Clark Press 37.50

The College Blue Book 4.28

The Comstock Pub. Co .90

Oliver Ditson Co 25.07

Dodd, Mead & Co., Inc . .. 1.21

Doubleday, Doran Co 16.43

E. B. Dutton & Co 1.70

Carl Fischer, Inc 1.62

Ginn & Co 426.68

Mason D. Gray 9.60

The Gregg Publishing Co 46.56

J. L. Hammett Co 54.86

Harcourt Brace & Co 40.19

Harper Brothers 6.47

Harvard University Press 4.30

D. C. Heath & Co 173.68

Henry Holt & Co 5.74

188

Houghton Mifflin Co 108.78

Iroquois Publishing Co 15.92

Journal of Commercial Educ 1.50

Laidlaw Brothers 1.03

Laurel Book Co 3,27

Charles E. Lauriat Co 42.95

J. B. Lippincott Co .57

Little Brown & Co 78.07

Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co 6.39

Longmans, Green & Co 8.15

Lyons & Carnahan 41.61

Mclndoo Publishing Co 2.57

The Macmillan Co 224.47

The Manual Arts Press 1.28

Charles E. Merrill Co 65.44

The New Republic 5.00

Noble & Noble .78

Old Corner Book Store, Inc 107.01

F. A. Owen Pub. Co 32.24

L. C. Page & Co ’ 6.46

Frank M. Phillips, Treas 1.00

Professional & Technical Press 3.32

Public School Publishing Co 57.60

G. P. Putnams Sons 2.12

Rand McNally & Co 42.78

The Republic Publishing Co 2.00

Rochfort’s Book Shop 4.50

Harold Rugg 293.62

Row, Peterson & Co 43.86

Benj. H. Sanborn 6.66

The Science Press 5.00

Scott, Foreman & Co 21.46

Charles Scribner’s Sons 38.62

Silver Burdett & Co 105.98

L. W. Singer Co 16.56

W. Hezelton Smith 7.25

Smith & McGance 2.70

Frederick A. Stokes Co 1.73

J. B. Taylor 43.97

Teachers College 16.70

University of Chicago 2.50

The University Pub. Co 20.57

D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc 3.00

Frederick Warne & Co .64

The H. W. Wilson Co 15.10

189

The John C. Winston Co 211.23

Women’s Foundation for Health 2.70

World Book Co 853.23

$ 4,854.28

Supplies for Pupils:

Adams Co 21.95

American Book Co 26.12

American Classical League 2.00

Arlac Stencil Sales Co 17.00

The Art Shop • • 6.52

G. H. Atkinson 138.42

W. Bancroft Co 30.95

W. C. Barrett 8.45

Barris Lumber Co 21.48

Berry & Withington Co 27.39

Edw. E. Babb & Co 2,564.17

Milton Bradley Co 136.05

James W. Brine Co 2.24’

Carter, Rice & Co 58.98

M. F. Charles 10.20

The Chemical Rubber Co 101.38

College Entrance Exam. Board 12.50

E. B. Currell & Son 2.15

Oliver Ditson Co 15.76

Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc 8.69

F. S. Eaton 5.22

Esterbrook Steel Pen Mfg. Co 23.47

First National Stores 3.83

Carl Fischer, Inc 11.04

Francis Bros 4.38

Gaylord Brothers 8.15

J. W. Gillis & Co .79

The Gregg Writer 2.00

Ginn & Co 36.11

J. L. Hammett Co 1,979.19

C. S. Hammond & Co 5.00

D. C. Heath & Co 6.67

Herrick Co 43.78

Hodson Brothers 34.30

George E. Horrocks .35

Howe & French, Inc 97.69

W. C. Hutchinson 58.57

Jordan Marsh Co 10.00

Kenney Service Station 5.25

Keramic Studio Publishing Co 6.00

190

Keystone View Co 7.56

Charles Knapp r 2.00

Laidlaw Brothers 44.47

Loose Leaf Mg. Co 14.50

O. E. Loveland 4.90

R. A. Lufkin 2.43

H. B. McArdle 97.66

Office Appliance Co 25.07

Mun. Light Board 5.13

Public School Pub. Co 10.59

Quality Market 3.03

George P. Raymond Co 5.25

Reading Cash Market 9.08

Reading Citizens Ice Co 1.75

Reading Custom Laundry 4.15

Remington Rand Bus. Ser.f Inc 70.92

Research Service Co 35.25

Rockport Fish Market 2.19

Ryan & Buker 86.57

School Arts Magazine 6.00

Secondary Educ. Board 1.05

Ser. Bureau for Classical Teachers 1.47

Smith Hammond & Co 9.90

Samuel Stephens 34.25

R. Taylor Milk Co 6.09

The Univ. Pub. Co 17.24

Waldo Bros. & Bond Co 1.60

F. S. Webster Co 48.00

Webster Publishing Co 14.67

Whiting Milk Co 6.38

A. J. Wilkinson & Co 10.47

W. H. Willis 8.55

World Book Co 23.41

John C. Winston Co 15.40

$ 6,191.17

Apparatus for Teaching:

American Type Founders Co 210.13

Edward E. Babb & Co 1.77

The Bookshop for Boys and Girls 7.20

Milton Bradley Co 103.85

James W. Brine Co 56.19

G. L. Bylin Co 100.00

Cambridge Botanical Supply Co 70.36

Central Scientific Co 129.15

Denoyer-Geppert Co 329.71

191

Eastman Kodak Stores, Inc 120.00

Carl Fischer 19.20

John E. Fovvle Co 2.60

Howe & French, Inc 15.18

Jacobus School Products Co 20.03

Jewell Electrical Instrument Co 14.70

Keystone View Co 40.45

B. L. Makepiece, Inc 45.60

Lewis E. Myers & Co 67.50

Narragansett Machine Co 400.00

J. H. Osgood Co 6.00

Royal Typewriter Co 741.50

Ryan & Buker, Inc *. 11.25

Spencer Lens Co 42.70

S. R. Stembridge 1.25

Samuel Stephens 61.44

Underwood Type Co 237.25

A. J. Wilkinson & Co 49.25

J. L. Hammett Co 4.80

$ 2,909.06

Administrative Expense:

Ajax Time Stamp Co $ 1.00

American Educ. Digest 5.00

American Medical Ass’n 5.00

American Oil & Gas Co 21.69

American School Board Journal 3.00

The Arlac Stencil Co .%. .40

The Art Shop 3.00

G. H. Atkinson Co .88

Edward E. Babb & Co 1.17

F. J. Barnard & Co 5.00

Harold W. Batchelder 1.00

Milton Bradley Co 2.63

Joseph Breck & Sons 1521

College Entrance Exam. Board .60

Cummings Express Company 8.45

Louis Davis 30.44

Dennison Mfg. Co .95

Dept, of Public Schools, Providence .48

Dept, of Superintendence 30.00

L. W. Dickinson & Son 1.20

Edgerley & Bessom 2.00

Fred B. Emerson 1.10

Francis Brothers .51

J. L. Hammett Co .38

192

Harding Typewriting Co 73.00

Mary E. Hilton 105.40

Hodson Brothers 4.00

John W. Hutchins 4.00

Jewell & Andrews 48.80

Jordan Marsh Co 26.65

Journal of Education 3.00

Kenneys Service Station 1.54

Kingman & Richardson 1.80

Alex Lindsay 17.00

J. B. Lippincott Co 4.07

Loyola Educ. Digest 20.40

Ida C. Lucas '... 88.31

H. B. McArdle 268.13

E. F. Mahady 4.50

A. H. Mingo 1.00

Mun. Light Board 9.23

Nat’l Child Welfare Ass’n 1.00

National Committee for Mental Hygiene 6.00

National Safety Council 13.50

New Eng. Ass’n of Col. & Secon. Schs. 2.00

New Eng. Publishing Co 3.00

New Republic Inc. 5.00

New Eng. Tel. & Tel. Co 761.71

Marian T. Pratt 2.00

Progressive Educ. Ass’n 5.50

Public Health Nurse 3.00

Public School Publishing Co 10.00

Reading Custom Laundry 1.72

Reading Motor Co 35.30

Remington Rand Bus. Ser., Inc 85.66

School Board Journal 3.00

School Magazines, Inc 2.00

H. A. Shepard Co 24.27

R. V. Spencer 2.00

The Survey 11.00

Rudolf Sussmann 3.00

Teachers College 15.75

Teachers Journal and Abstract 4.00

W. E. & J. F. Twombly 355.51

Univ. of Chicago 6.25

United States Post Office 112.85

Univ. Pub. Co 6.56

Wards J.70

Warwick & York, Inc 8.00

193

Hermon T. Wheeler

2.50

R. H. White

2.80

Margaret Whittier

11.95

World Book Co

64.76

Wright & Potter Print. Co

8.16

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co

24.05

2,429.42

Fuel:

Oliver McCrane

.... $

65.75

Percy N. Sweetser

7,641-53

O. P. Symonds

15.00

7,722.28

Gas and Electricity:

Malden & Melrose Gas Light Co

.... $

442.78

Municipal Light Board

2,815.41

3,258.19

Water and Sewer:

Sewer Dept

.... $

1,265.70

Water Dept

999.85

2,265.55

Ashes and Trucking:

American Railway Express Co

.... $

24.06

Chase’s Auto Express

3.05

Cummings Express

183.09

J. L. Hammett Co

33.05

P. F. Newhouse

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Harry E. Smith

200.00

Zanni & Co

82.75

526.50

Janitor Supplies:

Andrew's Paper Co

.... $

244.51

G. H. Atkinson Co

16.18

Boston Mill Remnants Co

152.20

James S. Cassedy

36.54

The Cudahy Packing Co

19.50

H. I. Dallman Co

107.21

Dustbane Mfg. Co

6.37

Frank S. Eaton

221.85

Economy Lubricating Co

44.13

T. C. Fife

.55

Francis Brothers

53.81

Wilbur D. Gilpatric

62.82

L. M. Glover Co

110.98

G. F. Gurney

14.10

194

The Norman C. Hayner Co 111.62

Hodson Brothers 22.10

Kenney Service Station .75

Mass. States Prison 74.91

Masury Young Co 248.78

H. B. McArdle 25.00

Midland Chemical Co 145.53

Mun. Light Board 4.19

Noxon Chemical Products Co., Inc 12.00

Ira S. Noyes 20.75

A. P. W. Paper Co 54.09

Proctor & Gamble Dist. Co 29.40

Reformatory For Women 40.70 .\

J. Fred Richardson 3.63

Sherwin-Williams Co 8.65

. . Solitaire & Furmato Co 1.80

' Fred . F. Smith 22.31

Spencer Co. of Boston 33.08

Stone & Forsyth Co 122.95

S. R. Stembridge Co 13.75

The Swan Co 41.65

The Tropical Paint & Oil Co 17.57

Webster Thomas Co 34.13

A. J. Wilkinson & Co 25.36

G. H. Worcester Co 22.95

$ 2,228.40

Repairs:

Allen Shade Holder Co $ 243.00

American Flag Pole Co., Inc 25.00

- ' ' ‘ American Radiator Co 3.42

Wendell Bancroft & Co 75.18

Bangs Fixture Co 75.00

W. C. Barrett 136.80

J. C. Birchall 3.25

Board of Public Works 52.43

Braman Dow & Co 10.42

Bronze Lighting Equipment Co 7.50

Edward M. Burnham Co 161.70

W. A. Burns 34.30

Clapp & Leach, Inc 252.83

E. B. Currell & Son 63.35

Dudley Lock Corp 192.00

F. S. Eaton 41.81

T. C. Fife 966.95

Francis Brothers 2.84

195

J. L. Hammett Co 120.37

Hodge Boiler Works 1,166.53

Hodson Brothers 1,032.53

H. E. Holbrook Co 176.00

Hulse Roofing Co 725.00

The Ideal Song Shop 40.50

W. E. Johnson 7.85

Jordan March Co 15.21

Kenlit Mfg. Co 34.31

Lambert-Sawyer Co 1-52

B. J. Leathers 44.00

E. W. Lowell Co 24.47

George W. Marshall 3.00

Merrimack Valley Roofing Co 150.00

Ora L. Milbury 8.00

Mun. Light Board 207.91

J. A. Murphy 16.65

New Eng. Flag Pole & Rigging Co 4.95

Norton Door Closer Co 37.69

Ida Partridge 2.50

Pigeon Hollow Spar Co • 24.00

Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Co 50.45

The Reading Greenhouses 1.50

Reading High A. A 150.80

Anna Reck 50.00

Royal Typewriter Co 6.90

Ryan & Buker, Inc 13.75

Dana F. Perkins 50.00

J. L. Peters 2.00

P. J. Seaman 3.85

Fred F. Smith .50

Spencer Co. of Boston 34.57

Standard Electric Time Co 17.75

Steele Furniture Co 45.00

A. M. Surrette 436.73

The Swan Co 11.76

Percy N. Sweetser 330.37

Triple Metals Corp 159.42

Harry E. Smith 2,064.69

Underwood Typewriter Co 5.30

Upton Lumber Co 61.06

Walworth Co 29.08

George E. Waring 25.00

George Zanni 13.40

$ 9,754.65

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Agricultural Account

American Nature Ass’n $ 3.00

The Bruce Publishing Co 1.60

Francis Brothers 522

The Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc 3.99

Macmillan Co 16.78

Meredith Publishing Co 1.00

Reading Greenhouses 1925

Hermon T. Wheeler 3.00

Reliable Poultry Journal Pub. Co 1.00

James Salter 1.00

W. H. Willis .50

$ 56.34

Industrial Tuition

City of Boston $ 151.08

City of Malden 4.16

City of Somerville 139.51

$ 29473

Thirty-fourth Annual Report

OF THE

ELECTRIC LIGHT COMMISSIONERS

For the Year Ended December 31

1928

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OFFICERS OF ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER DEPARTMENT

Commissioners

HENRY R. JOHNSON, Chairman Term expires 1929

HERBERT G. EVANS, Secretary Term expires 1930

HARRY P. BAKER . . Term expires 1931

Manager

ARTHUR G. SIAS

Office

1 77 Main Street, Reading, Mass.

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MANAGER’S REPORT

To the Municipal Light Board:

Gentlemen : — I respectfully submit herewith my report of the
operations of the Municipal Light Plant for the year ending December
31, 1928.

Electric Operating Revenue

Metered Sales to Private Consumers:

Lighting — Residence and Commercial $ 81,230.21

Cooking — Residence and Commercial 12,828.45

Residence Service 53,250.87

Commercial Lighting 10,512.72

Commercial Heating — Retail 2,238.39

Commercial Power 33,794.22

$193,854.86

Flat Rate Sales to Private Consumers :
Private Street Lights

$ 418.55 $ 418.55

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Municipal Revenues:

Street Lighting — Reading $ 13,500.00

Street Lighting — Lynnfield Centre ........ 1,971.28

Street Lighting — North Reading 3,945.42

Street Lighting — Wilmington 7,510.50

Municipal Lighting — Reading 3,638.51

Municipal Power — Reading 3,373.01

Power Sold to Wakefield 71.50

Power Sold to Lowell Elec. Lt.. Corp. ..... 46.38

Power Sold to Lawrence Gas and Elec. Co. 82.80

Power Sold to City of Peabody 2.16

Total Revenue from Sales of Elec. Energy

Rent from Property Used in Operation :

Rental of Pole Lines

Total Electric Operating Revenues

OPERATING EXPENSES— ELECTRIC

Production

Operation :

Superintendence and Labor % $ 105.00

Water for Steam 74.95

Lubricants 73.36

Station Supplies and Expenses 2,087.27

Maintenance :

Maintenance of Station Structures $ 695.21

Maintenance of Boiler Plant Equipment 756.97

Maintenance of Steam Engines 1.53

Maintenance Elec. Gen. Equipment 48.15

Maintenance Turbo Gen. Units 991.47

Maintenance Accessory Elec. Equipment .. 23.47

Electric Energy Purchased 62,552.84

Total Production Expenses

Transmission, Distribution and Storage

Operation :

Trans. Sta. and Sub-Sta., Supt. and Labor . $ 8,684.51
Trans. Sta. and Sub-Sta., Sup. and Exp. . . 6,601.36

Operation Transmission and Distribution

Lines 21,469.19

$ 34,141.56
$228,414:97

443.65

$228,858,63

$ 2,340.58

$ 65|069,64
$ 67,410.22

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Transmission and Dist. Sup. and Exp 292.14

Inspecting and Testing Meters 1,481.45

Removing and Resetting Meters 1,643.37

Removing and Resetting Transformers 577.52

$ 40,749.54

Maintenance :

Maintenance of Transmission and Distribu-

tion Lines $ 13,626.70

Maintenance of Consumers’ Meters 213.34

Maintenance of Transformers 581.73

Maintenance of Trans. Sta. and Sub-Sta. . . 310.26

$ 14,732.03

Total Transmission, Distribution and Storage

Expense $ 55,481.57

Utilization

Operation :

Municipal Street Lamps — Labor $ 954.76

Municipal Street Lamps — Supplies and Ex-
pense 2,027.90

$ 2,982.66

Maintenance :

Maintenance of Municipal Street Lamps . . $ 1,786.93

Maintenance of Consumers’ Installations . . 3,110.07

$ 4,897.00

Total Utilization Expenses $ 7,879.66

Commercial

Commercial Salaries $ 8,078.01

Commercial Supplies and Expense 1,767.61

Total Commercial Expenses $ 9,845.62

New Business

New Business Salaries $ 2,562.50

New Business Supplies and Expense 15.67

Advertising $ 1,368.39

Total New’ Business Expenses $ 3,946.56

General and Miscellaneous

Salary of Manager $ 5,200.00

Salaries of General Office Clerks 5,793.09

Insurance 6,133.57

Stores Expense 2,458.84

Transportation Expenses 1,631.30

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Depreciation 25,951.68

Miscellaneous General Expense 613.52

General Office Supplies and Expense 1,956.22

Accidents and Damages 62.44

Maintenance of General Structures 13.93

Inventory Adjustments 3,214.85

General Office Rent 410.22

Total General and Miscellaneous Expenses $ 53,439.66

Grand Total Operating Expenses $198,003.29

Income Statement for the Year

Operating Income :

Operating Revenue $228,858.62

Operating Expenses 198,003.29

Operating Revenue $ 30,855.33

Uncollectable Operating Revenue $ 2,771.83

Taxes Assignable to Electric Operations . . . 624.09 3,395.92

Net Operating Revenue $ 27,459.41

Non-Operating Income :

Merchandise and Jobbing Revenue $ 41.37

Interest Income 64.00

Miscellaneous Non-Operating Income 36.25

Total Non-Operating Income $ 141.62

Gross Income $ 27,601.03

Deductions from Gross Income :

Interest on Bonds and Notes $ 4,062.79

Total Deductions from Gross Income $ 4,062.79

Income Balance Transferred to Profit and

Loss $ 23,538.24

Profit and Loss Statement

Balance at Beginning of Fiscal Period $ 74,310.41

Balance Transferred from Income Account 23,538.24

Deductions from Surplus (Bonds $11,500.00,

Notes $3,300.00 $ 14,800.00

Balance carried forward to Surplus 83,048.65

Totals $ 97,848.65 $ 97,848.65

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COMPARATIVE GENERAL BALANCE SHEET
ASSETS

Balance at Balance at Net

beginning close Change

of year of year

Investments

$410,764.36 Plant Investment $415,679.50 $ 4,915.14

7,418.82 General Equipment 12,371.51 4,952.69

$418,183.18 Total Investments $428,051.01 $ 9,867.83

Current Assets

$ 250.00 Petty Cash Fund $ 250.00

289.09 Construction Fund $ 289.09

1,575.75 Consumers’ Deposit Fund 2,235.75 660.00

35,428.65 Accounts Receivable 35,080.88 347.77

46,890.14 Materials and Supplies 52,773.30 5,883.16

$ 84,433.63 Total Current Assets $ 90,339,93 $ 5,906.30

Prepaid Accounts

$ 1,237.74 Insurance Premiums Prepaid $ 408.73 $ 829.01

$503,854.55 Total Assets 518,799.67 14,945.12

Liabilities

30,678.26 Appropriations for Construction $ 30,678.26

Bonds and Notes Payable

$ 89,000.00 Bonds $ 77,500.00 $ 11,500.00

6,900.00 Notes Payable 3,600.00 3,300.00

$ 95,900.00 Total Bonds and Notes Payable ... $ 81,100.00 $ 14,800.00
Current Liabilities

$ 27,545.26 Accounts Payable $ 32,732,82 $ 5,187.56

1,575.75 Consumers’ Deposits 2,235.75 660.00

9,768.71 Due Town Treasurer (Loan) 10,310.24 541.53

$ 38,889.72 Total Current Liabilities $ 45,278.81 $ 6,389.09

Accrued Liabilities

$ 1,076.16 Interest on Bonds and Notes ...... $ 893.95 $ 182.21

Appropriated Surplus

$263,000.00 Loans Repayment $277,800.00 $ 14,800.00

$429,544.14 Total Liabilities $435,751.02 $ 6,206.88

$ 83,048.65 $ 8,738.24

Profit and Loss

$ 74,310.41 Profit and Loss — Balance

$503,854.55 Total Liabilities and Profit and Loss $518,799.67 $ 14,945.1-2

PLANT INVESTMENT ACCOUNTS— ELECTRIC

Balance

1928

Balance

Jan. 1, 1928

Additions

Depc. Dec. 31,1928

Plant

: Investment :

111

Land

$ 2,575.80

113

Structures

37,437.27

1-85.55

334.45

37,288.37

114

Boiler Plant Equip

ment

33,870.87

341.50

3,535.88

30,676.49

115

Prime Movers and

Auxil.

13,919.44

1,113.56

12,805.88

116

Turbo Generator

Units

21,706.32

1,736.51

19,969.81

117

Electric Plant —

Steam

24,300.13

3,963.42

2,261.08

26,002.47

125

Poles, Fixt. and

O’Head Cond. . .

183,466.96

16,825.25

12,017.53

188,274.68

128

Consumers’ Meters

: 39,623.21

2,898.0 7

1,700.85

40,820.43

129

Consumers’

Meters Instal. . .

5,571.69

417.00

239.55

5,749.14

130

Line Transformers

35,936.27

4,329.57

2,013.29

38,252.55

131

Line Transformers

Instal

3,424.61

1,180.16

230.24

4,374.53

132

Street Lighting

Equip

8,502.80

726.30

553.75

8,675.35

133

Consumers’ Prem-

Equip

428.99

214.99

214.00

Total

Plant Investment

$410,764.36

$ 30,866.82

$ 25,951.68

$415,679.50

General Equipment :

Office Equipment . . .

$ 3,057.00

$ 4,059.36

$ 7,116.36

Stores Equipment . . .

564.27

Transportation Equip.

2,700.00

2,300.00

$ 1,500.00

3,500.00

Laboratory Equip. ..

1,097.55

93.33

1,190.88

Total Gen. Equip. ... $ 7,418.82 $ 6,452.69 $ 1,500.00 $ 12,371.51

Total Value of all

Property $418,183.18 $ 37,319.51 $ 27,451.68 $428,051.01

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TOTAL COST OF PLANT
as of December 31, 1928

Cost of Land $ 2,575.80

Cost of Structures 44,252.47

Generating Plant — Steam :

Cost of Boiler Plant Equipment $ 69,696.71

Cost of Prime Movers and Auxiliaries 29,013.38

Cost of Turbo Generator Units 46,870.83

Cost of Electric Plant — Steam 44,514.29

Transmission, Distribution and Storage :

Cost of Poles, Fixtures and Overhead Con. $288,506.29

Cost of Consumers’ Meters 59,370.75

Cost of Consumers’ Meters Installation 8,127.56

Cost of Line Transformers 57,486.58

Cost of Transformers Installation 6,587.06

Utilization Equipment :

Cost of Street Lighting Equipment $ 24,804.03

Cost of Consumers’ Premises Equipment . . 428.99

Total Cost of Electric Plant as shown by the
books

CASH BALANCES AT CLOSE OF YEAR

Petty Cash Loan for Treasurer $ 250.00

DEPRECIATION FUND ACCOUNT

DEBITS

Balance of account at beginning of year

Amount transferred from income

Total

CREDITS

Amount expended for construction purposes . .

Balance on hand at close of year

MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES

Coal

Oil

Electrical Appliances

Miscellaneous Materials and Supplies

$ 46,8 28.27

$190,095.21

$420,078.24

$ 25,233.02
$682,234.74

$ 25,951.68
$ 25,951.68

$ 25,951.68

$ 1,575.16
82.29
14,411.49
36,704.36

Total

$ 52,773.30

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CONSTRUCTION FUND

DEBITS

Balance at beginning of year

Transferred from Depreciation Fund

Construction sold during year

Transferred from Operating Fund

$ 289.08

25,951.68
5,324.38
2,5 6623

Total $ 34,131.37

CREDITS

Amount expended for Additions and Extensions $ 34,131.37

Balance at close of year

OPERATION FUND

DEBITS

Balance at beginning of year % 9,518.71

Received from sale of electricity 228,414.97

Received from appropriations for St. Lights . . 13,500.00

Received from Miscellaneous Items 27,456.40

Total Debits $259,852.66

CREDITS

Expenditures for Operating Accounts $202,411.72

Bonds Paid 11,500.00

Notes Paid 3,300.00

Interest Paid 4,062.79

Amount Transferred to Depreciation Fund 25,951.68

Amount Transferred to Construction Fund 2,566.2 3

Total Credits $249,792.42

Balance due Treasurer 10,060.24

$259,852.66

The maximum load at the power station was 1600 kilowatts. This
load was indicated on four days in December, the twentieth, twenty-
first, twenty-fourth and thirty-first.

The maximum indicated load in 1927 was 1590 kilowatts, but as
this included 62 kilowatts of station power which was not used this
year, the actual increase over last year was 72 kilowatts, or approx-
imately five per cent.

The kilowatt hours delivered on the switchboard at the power
station show an increase of about six per cent, and kilowatt hours
sold about 8.6 per cent over 1927.

The kilowatt hours sold for power fell off about 37j4 per cent, due
principally to the loss of power business at the Reading Rubber Manu-
facturing Company’s Plant.

The following table shows the kilowatt hour data for 1927 and 1928':

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K. W. HOURS PURCHASED AND SOLD
During the year ending December 31, 1928

K. W. H. Generated
and Purchased

Generated

Purchased

Totals

K. W. H. Sold

Lighting Res. and Com

Cooking Res. and Com

Residence Lighting

Commercial Lighting

Commercial Heating, Ret

Commercial Power, Ret

Municipal Light

Municipal Power

Street Lighting

Police Spot Lights

Sub-Total

K. W. H. used at Station Garage

and Storeroom

K. W. H. used for Christmas

Illumination

K. W. H. Unaccounted for

i f

Totals

% Unaccounted

K. W. H. Sold in each town :

Reading

Lynnfield Centre

North Reading

Wilmington

Other Districts

1928

5,097,768

1927

406,693

4,396,397

Increase

Decrease

406,693

701,371

5,097,768

4,803,090

294,678

1,008,625

1,437,231

428,60$

448,253

815,932

367,679

1,067,096

163,140

903,956

155,221

61,513

892,453

1,025,772

133319

62,459

50,032

12,427

111,809

90,557

21,252

343,763

349,292

5,529

1,030

5,950

4,920

4,152,222

3,937,906

214,316

25,625

54,439

28314

5,880

3*810

2,070

914,041

806,935

107,106

5,097,768

4,803,090

294,678

17.9

16.8

1.1

2,924,278

2,930,320

6,042

166,671 .

143,650

23,021

402,699

333,093

69,606

655,264

528,100

127,164

3,310

2,743

567

Totals 4,152,222 3,937,906 214,316

The average cost per kilowatt hour purchased at the switchboard
was 1.227 cents.

The average total production cost, including sub-station labor,
repairs, maintenance and station expenses, was 1.622 cents, which is
the lowest average cost we have ever shown.

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The average total cost per kilowatt hour sold and delivered to
street lights was 5.305 cents, as compared with 5.1 cents the previous

year and 5.77 cents in 1926.

The classification of costs for 1928 is shown below:

Production

Distribution

Utilization

Commercial

New Business

General and Miscellaneous

Bonds, Notes and Interest

1.623 cents
1.336 cents
0.189 cents
0.237 cents
0.095 cents
1.371 cents
0.454 cents

Total Costs 5.305 cents

The income from sales of current was $228,414.97, an increase of
$7,071.25 over the previous year. The decrease in power sales re-
duced our income from this class of service $3,486.59. The reduction
in the rates for commercial lighting and residence service effected a
loss in income of about $6,600.00

The cost to the Department for the Street Lighting was $13,752.55
and the appropriation was $13,500.00.

The following table show’s the classification of income for 1927
and 1928:

Income from Sales of Current

Lighting — Res. and Com

1928

. . . $ 81,230.21

1927

$120,889.07

Increase or
Decrease

$ 39,658.86

Cooking — Res. and Com

12,828.45

23,793.22

10,964.77

Residence Lighting

53,453.71

5,851.70

47,602.01

Commercial Lighting

Commercial Heating — Retail . . .
Commercial Power

10,931.27

2,238.39

33,794.22

38,334.35

10,931.27

2,238.39

4,540.13

Municipal Lighting

3,638.51

2,585.75

1,052.76

Municipal Power

3,373.01

2,373.58

999.43

Street Lighting

26,927.20

27,516.05

588.85

Totals

. . . $228,414.97

$221,343.72

$ 7,071.25

Income from Each Town

Reading $144,165.94

$144,539.08

$ 373.14

Lynnfield Centre

12,303.32

11,543.45

759.87

North Reading

26,050.83

23,345.92

2,704.91

Wilmington

45,692.04

41,766.54

3,925.50

Other Districts

202.84

148.73

54.11

Totals

$228,414.97

$221,343.72

$ 7,071.25

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Operating expenses have increased materially over the previous
.year, principally on account of re-building the pole lines and additional
expenses in connection with moving our office quarters and equipping
the new office building.

Accounts Receivable December 31 were $35,080.88 and Accounts
Payable $32,732.82.

Inventory of supplies on hand shows an increase of $5,883.16 over
last year.

Bills paid by the Treasurer in advance of collections amounted
to $10,060.24.

$11,500.00 in Bonds and $3,300.00 in Notes were paid during the
year. No additional bonded indebtedness has been incurred.

Additions and Extensions to the Plant during 1928 amounting to
$29,402.39 have been paid for from income.

The increase in Profit and Loss Surplus December 31 was $8,738.24.

We have installed 319 new services during the year.

The following table shows the classification of customers on our
books December 31st.

Pri.

Res.

Ltng.

Com.

Ltng.

Com.

Htng.

Com.

Pr.

St.

Lts.

Totals

Reading

2,462

274

2,868

North Reading

597

687

Lynnfield Centre

347

376

Wilmington

1,031

103

1,183

—

Totals

4,437

447

123

5,114

Thirty new street lights have been installed as follows : Reading,
22. North Reading, 3. Wilmington, 4. Lynnfield Centre, 1.

The street lights have been burned the following hours : Reading
3,972. North Reading and Lynnfield Centre 1,927. Wilmington 2,098.

The number of each size of street lamps renewed during the year
is shown below :

40 c.p. 60 c.p. 100 c.p 250 c.p. 600 c.p. 1000 c.p. T
13 775 21 119 55 6 989

127 127

479 479

941 1 7 949

Totals 1,560 776 21 119 62 6 2,544

Reading

Lynnfield Centre
North Reading
Wilmington

LAMP AND APPLIANCE DEPARTMENT
Appliances Sold in 1928

Air Heaters 25

Auto Heaters 2

Battery Chargers 3

Christmas Candle Sets - 58

Christmas Tree Sets * 104

Corn Poppers 18

Curling Irons 15

Drink Mixer 1

Egg Cookers 19

Electric Beaters 2

Fans 20

Fireless Cookers 2

Flat Irons 123

Hair Dryers 2

Heating Pads , . 35

Hot Plates 19

Hutmidifiers 1

Ice Cream Freezers 1

Ironers L

Kelvinators 54

Kitchen Units 4

Motors 22

Percolators 27

Portable Lamps 49

Ranges 14

Socold Refrigerating Unit . 1

Soldering Irons 2

Teleebron Clocks 5

Toasters 93

Yaeuum Cleaners 31

Vibrators 2

Waffle Irons 41

Water Heaters 13

Water Pumps 12

Washing Machines 16

The Estimated Annual Revenue from the above appliances is
$4,200.00.

Power Station

The generating machinery at the power station has not been called
upon during the year to carry any part of the load.

The repairs to the 500 K. W. turbine which were started last year,
have been completed. The old boiler feed pump has been replaced with, a
new one and minor repairs have been made to the boiler furnaces. The

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generating equipment is now in first class operating^condition and is capa-
ble of carrying 1,400 K. W. load.

Two additional voltage regulators have been installed during the
year, and plans have been made to install four more during the coming
year.

Street Lights

The General Electric street light regulators installed during the
latter part of 19^'7 have operated more economically than the old style regu-
lators which they replaced. Although we added 22 new street lights during
the past year, the number of kilowatt hours delivered to the circuits was
about one per cent less than in 1927.

Distribution Lines

Extensive repairs have been made to the pole and wire lines during
the year. 501 poles have been set, and 195,104 feet of wire installed. Ne-
gotiations. are under way with the New England Telephone and Telegraph
Company to rebuild the pole lines jointly on several streets during the com-
ing year and eliminate duplicate pole lines. The power lines have been ex-
tended to the State Sanatorium in North Reading to provide service for
approximately 10*0' horse power in motors.

The power lines in Wilmington have been extended to the new pump-
ing station of the Wilmington Water Works, and the North Wilmington
section has been connected to the new line, relieving to some extent the
overloaded conditions at Wilmington Center.

Plans have been made and material purchased to increase, the feeders
on this line between the -power, station and the junction of Low'ell and West
Streets in order to overcome voltage drop and reduce line losses.

Additional transformer capacity to supply service for about 100 horse
power has been installed at the plant of the Wilmington Packing Company
on Eames Street.

The Reading Rubber Manufacturing Company and Sanford Mills
have added about 200 horse power load to our lines, and I understand that
about 300 additional horse powrer wrill be installed during the coming year.
The Boston Stove Foundry are considering the installation of about 100
X. W. additional load at their John Street foundry.

Christmas Decorations

Continuing the custom of the two previous years, the Department
installed lines of colored lights on Mlain, Haven, Harnden and Ash Streets.
The small park between Main and Ash Streets was decorated and about 100
small trees attached to poles located on several streets near the Square were
lighted with out-door Christmas tree sets. Two large trees on the Com-
mon and one at Ernest Leacli Park were lighted and a group of slmaller
trees on the grass plot on West Street at County Road were decorated
with out -door Christmas tree sets.

211

In al., approximately 3,600 lamps were lighted from December 15th,
through New Year’s day.

The cost to the Department for labor, current and materials used

was as follows:

Labor and truck, installing and removing $584.44

100 trees 30.00

186 lamps renewed 40.92

5,88'0 kilowatt hours at 2.7 cents 158.76

Total $814.12

The prizes offered by the Heading Board of Trade for home decora-
tions were in a large measure responsible for the increased illumination of
homes and stores.

Reading, at Christmas time, was again the Town which I believe
was not excelled by any other Town or City near us in its electrical illumina-
tions.

New Office and Salesroom

In accordance with the vote of the Town, we have negotiated an
agreement for ten years, with Martin B. Hartshorn, covering a lease of
the building and land at 177 Main Street which we took possession of on
September 1st. The building is of cement block construction, with brick
front and tar and gravel roof. It is 36 feet wide and, 80 feet deep with a
basement under the entire structure. Three large show windows permit an
attractive display of electrical appliances. A room in the front is used
for a salesroom and the display of lamps and appliances. The main offitee
is on the South Side of the building. On the North side are the offices for
the sales department, and Manager, and in the rear is the meter room and
service department.

In the Northeast corner of the basement is a fire proof storage vault
constructed in accordance with state requirements in which the records of
the Department are stored. A room in one corner of the basement is being
fitted for the demonstration of ranges and other appliances. The balance
of the basement area is used for the receiving and shipping room, repair
department and storage of supplies. A large space in the rear of the build-
ing affords ample opportunity for parking and avoids congestion on the
street.

Under the terms of our agreement, we are to pay the owner an amount
equal to 6 per cent per annum on the cost of the building and land, and in
addition to pay the cost of taxes, insurance and repairs. The following isi
*he estimated annual cost to the Department:

Cost of land $ 4,521.40

Cost of Building 12,976.97

Total

$17,498.37

212

6</o on this amount is 1,049.90

Taxes (estimated) 450.00

Insurance 61.10

Repairs (estimated) 100.00

Total $ 1,661.00

or an average monthly rental of $ 138.42

The cost of fitting up the new quarters was $1,164.98 and the cos#
of moving $454.27.

New Headquarters

New Salesroom

Ntw Business Office

216

THE NEW RATES FOR RESIDENCE SERVICE

On September first we adopted a new schedule of rates for residence
service, which is not unusual in form but is decidedly novel in its working
or in its effect on the customer's bill.

The new schedule replaced the flat rate schedule which has always
been used here, under which the consumer paid the same rate per kilowatt
hours irrespective of the quantity consumed. The flat rate schedule of 7.2
cents net per kilowatt hour for residence service, offered no inducement to
the consumer to make additional use of his lighting, or to make use of the
various household appliances, as the cost increased in direct proportion to
the amount of current used.

There has been for years a special rate of 2.7 cents net per kilowatt
hour for current used for cooking, heating and refrigeration but in order to
secure this rate it was necessary for the consumer to install special wiring
and purchase and install certain appliances in order to obtain the low rate.
It also required the installation of an additional meter, and the rendering
of two monthly bills. Even then it was not possible to obtain the full bene-
fit of the special rate unless the special wiring was extended to every room
in the house, as well as the garage.

A few years ago, in order to relieve the consumer of the expense of
installing duplicate wiring and eliminate one meter and tne necessity of
keeping two sets of accounts with a residence customer, we offered a com-
bination residence rate to those customers who installed a range, water
heater or refrigerator. Under this rate the first 25 kilowatt hours per month
cost 7.2 cents net per kilowatt hour and the excess 2.7 cents net per kilowatt
hour.

This rate was optional and less than half of the customers who used
electric cooking took advantage of it and it did not benefit those who did
not have a range, refrigerator or hot water heater. As the rate applied only
to a comparatively small number of customers, it was claimed by others to
be discriminatory, because it did not take into account the amount of
current used.

Under the new schedule, all restrictions are removed and customers
are enabled to make full use of the service for any purpose in any part of
the premises.

The new rates are simple and easily understood.

The first 25 kilowatt hours per month cost 7.2 cents net' per kilowatt

hour.

The next 25 kilowatt hours i)er month cost 4.5 cents net per kilowatt

hour.

217

All current in excess of 50 kilowatt hours per month costs 2.7 cents
net per kilowatt hour.

It i© doubtful if there is a more favorable rate for residence service
anywhere in the State. As an illustration of the benefit of the new ratte
to the customer, the following comparison of the bills of one customer for
four months is interesting:

1927 1928

Old Rate New Rate

Month

K.W.H.

Net Bill

Av. Rate

K.W.H.

Net Bill

Av. Rate

September

$3.67

7.2

$3.28

5.2

October

4.39

7.2

111

4.57

4.1

November

4.90

7.2

118

4.76

4.0

December

6.05

7.2

133

5.17

3.9

Total

264

$19.01

7.2

425

$17.78

4.18

Increase in kilowatt hours used 61

per cent

Decrease in net rate 42 per cent
Decrease in amount of bill 6.4 per cent
It thus becomes possible for any residence customer to materially in-
crease his usage of lights or appliances without a corresponding increase
in his bills, provided that his present monthly bill is at least $1.80, net.

My estimate of the expenses of the plant for 1929 and the anticipated
revenue, is submitted herewith and is followed by data from the office rec-
ords:

ESTIMATE FOR 1929
Expenses

For Operation, Maintenance and Repairs $174,162.00

For Interest on Bonds and Notes 3,575.50

For Depreciation at 4% on cost of Plant 27,186.35

For Bond Payments 11,500.00

For Note Payments 2,300.00

For Taxes 2,000.00

For Uncollectible Operating Revenues 2,500.00

Total Expenses $223,223.85

Income

From Sales t^ Private Consumers $228,301.50

From Sundry Sales 500.00

From Tax Levy

For Municipal Department $ 5,000.00

For Street Lights 13,000.00 18,000.00

Total Ihcome

$246,801.50

218

Respectfully submitted,

ARTHUR G. SIAS, Manager.

The Manager’s report as herewith submitted is approved by the
Electric Light Commissioners.

HENRY R. JOHNSON
HERBERT G. EVANS
HARRY P. BAKER

Municipal Light Board.

DATA FROM RECORDS OF PLANT

Kilowatt Hours Manufactured None

Kilowatt Hours Purchased 5,097,768

Kilowatt Hours for Reading Street Lights 259,482

Kilowatt Hours Sold 4,152,222

Kilowatt Hours used at station and office 25,625

Kilowatt Horns unaccounted for 914,041

Coal used — net tons 204

Average cost of coal per net ton $ 6.354

Poles added and renewed 501

Feet of Wire added 195,104

New Services Installed 319

New Street Lamps Installed 30

Connected Load Deo. 31, 1928

Number of customers 5,114

Horse Power in Mlotors 1,723.5

Number of Public Street Lights 1,626

Number of Private Street Lights 29

READING

Number of customers Dec. 31, 1928 2,868

Number of 40 candle power public street lights 3

Number of 60 candle power public street lights 524

Number of 100 candle power public street lights 15

Number of 250 candle power public street lights 80

Number of 600 candle power public street lights 46

Number of 1000 candle power public street lights 4

Number of 60 candle power private street lights 14

Number of 100 candle power private street lights 3

Number of 250 candle power private street lights 1

Horse Power in Motors 1,346.3

Income for year $144,165.94

LYNNFIELD CENTRE

Number of customers December 31, 1928 376

Number of 40 candle power public street lights 147

Number of 40 candle power private street lights 1

Horse power in motors 19.1

Income for year $12,303.32

219

NORTH READING

Number of customers December 31, 1928 * 687

Number of 40 candle power public street lights 290

Number of 40 candle power private street lights 6

Horse power in motors 160.8

Income for year $26,050.83

WILMINGTON

Number of customers December 31, 1928 1183

Number of 40 candle power public street lights 504

Number of 600 candle power public street lights 14

Number of 40 candle power private street lights 4

Horse power in motors 197.3

Income for year $45,692.04

COST OF DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IN OUTSIDE TOWNS

LYNNFIELD CENTRE

Total Investment December 31, 1928:

Poles, Fixtures & Overhead Cond $ 23,448.93

Consumers’ Meters 4,179.35

Line Transformers 2,540.25

Street Lighting Equipment 1,565.56 $ 31,734.09

NORTH READING

Total Investment December 31, 1928:

Poles, Fixtures & Overhead Cond $ 52,160.90

Consumers’ Meters 7,824.43

Line Transformers 6,403.90

Street Light Equipment 2,620.55 $ 69,009.78

WILMINGTON

Total Investment December 31, 1928:

Poles, Fixtures & Overhead Cond $ 90,655.81

Consumers’ Meters 11,427.67

Line Transformers 8,283.65

Street Lighting Equipment $ 4,083.74 $ 114,450.87

Total Investment — Outside Towns .... $ 215,194.74

. Income — Outside Towns 1928 $ 84,249.03

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222

TABLE C

Production Costs Per K. W. H. Based on Total K. W. H. Delivered

at Switchboard

K. W. H.
Year Purchased

Fuel

Labor

Repairs and other
Station Expense

Total

Costs

1910

.0086

.0075

.0026

.0187

1911

.0078

.0069

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.0168

1912

.0091

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1914

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1917

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1918

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1919

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1920

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1921

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1922

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1923

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1924

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1925

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1926

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1927

.01116

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.00246

.00390

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1928

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TABLE D

Average Cost Per K. W. H. As Defined by Chapter 164, General Laws

1 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920

Operating Costs :
Fixed Costs :
Total Costs :

Operating Costs
Fixed Costs :
Total Costs :

.0397 .0483 .0362 .0586 .0467 .0577 .0538 .0509 .0558

.0198 .0176 .0254 .0299 .0261 .0249 .0274 .0213 .0259

.0595 .0659 .0616 .0885 .0728 .0826 .0812 .0722 .0817

1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928

.0640 .0561 .0494 .0377 .0442 .0448 .0395 .04-14

.0330 .0278 .0185 .0138 .0131 .0129 .0115 .0116

.0970 .0839 .0679 .0515 .0573 .0577 .0510 .0530

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE— December 31, 1928

American Ironing Machine Co $ 230.95

American Railway Express Co 10.24

Addresso graph Co 17.25

Abbott, H. L 2.00

Ansonia Electrical Co 1,216.49

223

Buckminster, Geo. H. Co 2,026.15

Bowen, C 1.75

Boston & Maine R. R 15.86

Bennett, Van 1 46.95

Bailey, J. Brinton 72.36

Burke, Frank 102.65

Cummings Express Co 42.98

Clapp & Leach, Inc 30.19

Century Electric Co 4.66

Conover Co 83.70

Charles, M. F 22.25

Central Garage 7.82

Currell, E. B. & Son 20.22

Dyer Clark Co 201.90

Dayton, Paul W 105.75

Dustbane Mfg. Co 8.32

Dickinson, O. L 8.00

Dickinson, L. W. & Sons 18.00

Davis Transformer Company 74.80

Davis, Louis 9.47

Davis, Geo. W. Co 7.75

Electric Time Co 9.84

Electric Specialty Co .75

Edison Electric Co. 13,128.20

Enreka Vacuum Cleaner Co 3.13

Eaton, Frank S 5.40

Eaimes, Ernest W 40.00

Ftanchur, Inc 11.75

Fife, T. C. Inc 3.80

Federal Engraving Co 4.58

Francis Bros .48.07

Graybar Electric Co., Inc 715.19

Goodheart Co., The 270.05

General Electric Co 2,811.04

Gulf Refining Co 119.36

Gillis, J. W. & Co 3.13

General Motors Truck Co 1.75

General Electric Supply Corp 419.24

Granite State Electric Supply Co 202.50

Geier, P. A. Co 506.25

Hynes & Cox, Electric Corp 218.20

Hygrade Lamp Co 312.70'

Hartshorn, Martin B 814.44

Hoover Co., The 147.96

Hamden, E. E 42.84

Hardy, F. S. & Co 27.90

224

Ide, Geo. W. S 25.00

John St. Garage .75

Johnson, C. C 1.50

Jefferson Glass Co 18.25

Joslin Show Case Co 110.00

Kelvinator Sales Corporation 437.07

Kenney Service Station 125.65

Lowell Eleetrie Light Cbrp 12.66

Lindsay, Alex 2.50

Landers, Frary & Clark 51.72

Linscott Motor Co 5.45

Lewis Electrical Supply Co 92.13

Lightolier Co 41.70

Laffin, D. M 12.50

Martell, A. E. Co., Inc 59.46

Marshall, George W 2.45

Mass. Dept, of Public Works 273.92

Mass. Reformatory 200.42

M. P. A. Associates of Boston 24.00 < /

N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co 116.95 7

National Lamp Works 652.46

Prentiss & Parker 960.41

Reading, Town of, Sewer Dept 8.40

Robbins-Phalon Co. 301.38

Roeblinge, John A. Son9 Co 142.00

Remington-Rand Service Co 210.00

Reading Motor Oo., Inc 73.08

Rome Wire Oo 609.64

Stembridge, S. R 10.50

Standard Underground Cable Co 13.75

Spaulding Moss Co. 1.21

Smith, Fred F 36.55

Salem St. Service Station .70

Sager Eleetrie Supply Co 13.00

Steele Furniture Co 40.00

Simplex Wire & Cable Co 40.87

Sweetser, Percy N . 90.36

Twombly, W. E. & J. F. 165.43

Totten, R. W 56.24

Vye-Neill Co 771.61

Wright, M. S. Co 20.50

Wetmore- Savage Co 1,931.09

Wahn, Geo. H. Co 511.53

Willis, W. H 2.25

Westinghouse Elec. & Mfg. Co 302.64

Wallace, F 4.29

225

Walker Pratt Mfg. Co., 90.00

Wakefield Radiator Co 3.50

Wendell Bancroft Co 16.65

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co. . . . -.v 69.67

Zanni, Angelo 24.00

Total

$32,888.57 $ 135.75

155.75

$32,732.82

REPORT OF AUDITOR FOR THE YEAR 1928

January 31, 1929;

Municipal Light Board:

Reading, Mass.

Gentlemen : — Complying with your order, we have made an
annual audit and examination of the books and records of the Municipal
Light Department for the year ending December 31, 1928.

The Exhibits and Schedules listed below are attached as part
of our report :

Exhibit

“A” — Comparative Balance Sheet — December 31, 1928-1927

“B” — Comparative Operating Statement — January 1 to December
31, 1928-1927

“C” — Comparative Profit and Loss Analysis — January 1 to
December 31, 1928-1927

“D” — Comparative Detail of Electric Income — January 1 to
December 31, 1928-1927

“E” — Comparative Detail of Electric Expenses — January 1 to
December 31, 1928-1927

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Schedule

I — Bond and Note Record and Accrued Interest December 31, 1928

II — Accounts Payable — December 31, 1928

III — Bonded Employees — December 31, 1928

Plant Investment — $415,579.50

Additions to plant amounting to $30,866.82 have been made during
the year. This consists principally of services and extensions, with
ordinary increases in other accounts.

Depreciation amounting to $25,951.68 has been written off this
year, besides $22,159.76 having been spent for Maintenance charges.

General Equipment — $12,371.51

This class of fixed assets show's a net increase of $4,952.69 over
1927. A large part of this is accounted for through the purchase of
additional office equipment for the new office and store on Main Street.

Current Assets — $90,339.93

Petty Cash Fund — $250.00

This fund was counted and found to agree writh the ledger
control. All payments from this fund were current.

Consumers' Deposit Fund — $2,235.75

This is a separate fund w'hich is handled by employees of the
department. It was verified and reconciled with bank statement.

Accounts Receivable — Consumers — $19,187.67

Individual customers balances were checked and found to agree
with the control.

An amount of $3,440.74 or 18.0% wras found to be 90 days or
more in arrears.

Bad Debts in the amount of $1,023.62 have been written off this
year in this class of Receivables as being uncollectible.

Accounts Receivable — Miscellaneous — $15,913.21

The individual customers ledger accounts wrere checked and
found to agree with control.

Bad debts amounting to $1,748.21 have been written off this year
being considered worthless.

Materials and Supplies — $52,773.30

Inventories of various classes of supplies have been taken by
-employees of the department. These were not checked by our office.
However, book values have been adjusted to agree with all physical
enventories taken.

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Prepaid Items — $408.73

This represents prepaid insurance premiums unexpired. From
policies in evidence this figure is correct.

Appropriations for Construction — $30,678.26

No appropriations were made from tax levy during 1928.

Bonds Payable — $77,500.00

The above amount represents the total Bonds Payable as of
December 31, 1928, $11,500.00 having been retired during the year with
no new issues.

Notes Payable — $3,600.00

This represents notes outstanding as of December 31, 1928. An
amount of $3,300.00 has been retired during year and no new issues
contracted.

Accounts Payable — $32,732.82

Schedule II shows a detail of the various unpaid accounts. These
date back to September 1928.

This above includes cost of electricity purchased for months of
November and December 1928 amounting to $11,035.70.

Consumers’ Deposits — $2,235.75

Individual customers records were checked and found to be in
agreement with the control.

Interest was noted as being paid on these accounts December
31, 1928,

Interest Accrued on Bonds, and Notes — $893.95

Schedule I shows detail of this accrued item found by us to be
correct.

Other Accrued Items

Due Treasurer per Lighting Department Records $ 10,310.24

Due Treasurer per Treasurer’s Records 9,590.17

Difference $ 720.07

This difference is due to deposit of January 2, 1929 being in-
cluded as December business in Treasurer’s record, and not used until
January business in Electric Department.

This indebtedness has existed since 1925 and it is very apparent
from this and also from non-current Accounts Payable that the working
capital of this department is insufficient.

The Treasurer receives no interest on this loan from the Electric
Department.

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Lc<ans Repayment — $277,800.00

This account has been increased by Bonds Paid during the
year amounting to $11,500.00, and Notes Paid amounting to $3,300.00,
or a total of $14,800.00.

Electric Operating Revenue — $228,858.62

Although a substantial reduction of rates went into effect on
September 1, 1928, revenue from electrical operations has shown an
increase of $7,072.60 or 3.2%.

Distribution or classification of many expense items was con-
sidered improper. For Example : Commercial Expenses as shown in
Exhibit E show a decrease and General Expenses show an increase.
We believe proper classification will show normal increases in both
departments.

Suggestion is made that 1929 classifications be more suitable by
removing certain General Expenses to Commercial Expenses. Likewise
other Departments are effected by improper classifications.

It is suggested that the account 674 — Stores Expense — be used
in 1929 and concurrently the “unit cost” of Material used for operating
and construction be corrected — to be “cost-landed-in-stock.”

Materials used for capital accounts to be increased by per-
centage of total amount (dollars) only and credited to 674 Stores
Expense account.

The net balance of 674 Stores Expense account will reflect the
operating cost of Material and Supplies department.

Non-operating Income — $141.62

Jobbing appliance business shows a slight net profit this year
as compared to a loss last year of $1,248.65.

General

From observation of commercial accounting methods and equip-
ment now in use many detailed changes could be effected, we believe,
to render department more efficient.

This department does not operate the so-called “perpetual” in-
ventory system and it is suggested that all inventories be calculated
and adjusted as of December 1st each year rather than December 31st.
By so doing your accountant will have ample time to study inventory
differences and make suitable adjustment thereof prior to the “closing
period” of your general accounts, report of which must be completed
in time for insertion in the printed Town Report.

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Respectfully submitted,

CHARLES E. STANWOOD & SONS.
By Charles E. Stanwood. Certified Public Accountant (Mass.)

EXHIBIT “A”

TOWN OF READING— MUNICIPAL LIGHT DEPARTMENT
COMPARATIVE BALANCE SHEET— DECEMBER 31

ASSETS

INCREASE

Investments: 1928 1927 DECREASE

Plant Investment

E- 111 Land

E-113 Structures

E-114 Boiler Plant Equipment .
E-115 Prime Movers and Aux-
iliaries

E-116 Turbo-Generator Units ..
E-117 Electric Plant— Steam ...
E-125 Poles, Fixtures and Over-

Overhead Conductors

E-128 Consumers’ Meters

E-129 Consumers’ Meter Instal-
lation

E-130 Line Transformers

E-131 Transformer Installation
E-132 Street Lighting Equipment
E-133 Consumers’ Premises

Equipment

$ 2,575.80

37,288.37

37,437.27

$ 148.90

30,676.49

33,870.87

3,194.38

12,805.88

13,919.44

1,113.55

19,969.81

21,706.32

1,736.51

26,002.47

24,300.13

1,702.34

188,274.68

183,466.96

4,807.72

40,820.43

39,623.21

1,197.22

5,749.14

5,571.69

177.45

38,252.55

35,936.27

2,316.28

4,374.53

3,424.61

949.92

8,675.35

8,502.80

172.55

214.00

428.99

214.99

TOTAL PLANT INVESTMENT $415,679.50 $410,764.36 $ 4,915.14

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General

E-150

Equipment

Office Equipment

. $ 7,116.36

$ 3,057.00 $

E-152

Stores Equipment

564.27

E-153 Transportation Equip-
ment

3,500.00

2,700.00

E-154

Laboratory Equipment .

1,190.88

1,097.55

4,059.36

800.00

93.33

TOTAL GENERAL EQUIPMENTS 12,371.51 $ 7,418.82 $ 4,952.69

TOTAL INVESTMENTS
Current Assets

E-204-3 Petty Cash

E-204-2 Construction Fund

E-205-2 Consumers’ Deposit Fund
E-207-1 Accounts Receivable —

Consumers

E-207-2 Accounts Receivable —

Miscellaneous

E-209-1 Materials and Supplies :

General

Station Tools and Appliances
Distribution Tools and Ap-
pliances

Printing and Office Supplies
Office Improvement Supplies

Lamps and Appliances

Coal Supplies

Station Supplies

$428,051.01

$418,183.18 $

9,867.83

$ 250.00

$ 289.09 $

289.09

2,235.75

1,575.75

660.00

19,167.67

20,724.52

1,556.85

15,913.21

14,704.13

1,209.08

31,028.29

28,206.98

2,821.31

726.46

565.69

160.77

2,032.44

1,95521

67.23

1,289.25

813.50

475.75

1,164.98

14,411.49

12,554.81

1,856.68

1,575.16

1,926.03

340.87

545.23

867.92

322.69

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS $ 90,339.93 $ 84,433.63 $ 5,906.30

Prepaid Items

E-213 Prepaid Insurance Pre-
miums $ 408.73 $ 1,237.74 $ 829.01

TOTAL ASSETS

$518,799.67 $503,854.55 $ 14,945.12

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LIABILITIES AND SURPLUS

INCREASE

Appropriations DECREASE

E-301 Appropriations for Con-
struction $ 30,678.26 $ 30,678.26

Bonds and Notes

E-305

Bonds Payable

$ 77,500.00

$ 89,000.00

$ 11,500.00

E-306

Notes Payable

3,600.00

6,900.00

3,300.00

TOTAL

BONDS AND NOTES

$ 81,100.00

$ 95,900.00

$ 14,800.00

Current

Liabilities

E-308

Accounts Payable

$ 32,732.82

$ 27,545.26

$ 5,187.56

E-309

Consumers’ Deposits

2,235.75

1,575.75

660.00

TOTAL

CURRENT LIABILITIES

$ 34,968.57

$ 29,121.01

$ 5,847.56

Accrued

Items

E-314

Interest Accrued on Bonds

and Notes

$ 893.95

$ 1,076.16

$ 182.21

E-315

Other Accrued Items —

Loan — Town Treasurer

10,310.24

9,768.71

541.53

TOTAL

ACCRUED ITEMS

$ 11,204.19

$ 10,844.87

$ 359.32

Appropriated Surplus

E-322

Loans Repayment

$277,800.00

$263,000.00

$ 14,800.00

TOTAL

LIABILITIES

$435,751.02

$429,544.14

$ 6,206.88

Profit

and Loss — Balance

$ 83,048.65

$ 74,310.41

$ 8,738.24

TOTAL

LIAB. AND SURPLUS

$518,799.67

$503,854.55

$ 14,945.12

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EXHIBIT “C”

TOWN OF READING— MUNICIPAL LIGHTING DEPARTMENT
COMPARATIVE PROFIT AND LOSS ANALYSIS— DECEMBER 31

INCREASE
1928 1927 DECREASE

Balance, January 1

$ 74,310.41

$ 54,720.15

$ 19,590.26

CREDITS:

Net Income from Exhibit “B”

23,538.24

35,390.26

11,852.02

Total Credit

$ 97,848.65

$ 90,110.41

$ 7,738.24

CHARGES:

Bonds Paid

$ 11,500.00

$ 12,500.00

$ 1,000.00

Notes Paid

3,300.00

Total Charges

$ 14,800.00

$ 15,800.00

$ 1,000.00

Balance, December 31

$ 83,048.65

$ 74,310.41

$ 8,738.24

NET INCREASE IN PROFIT AND

LOSS FOR YEAR

$ 8,738.24

$ 19,590.26

$ 10,852.02

EXHIBIT “D”

MUNICIPAL LIGHT DEPARTMENT

COMPARATIVE DETAIL OF

INCOME— JAN. 1 TO

DEC. 31

1928

INCREASE
1927 DECREASE

METERED SALES— LIGHTING

Reading

$ 49,632.24

$ 73,875.49

$ 24,243.25

Lynnfield Center

5,227.57

7,718.02

2,490.45

North Reading

8,657.37

12,381.37

3,724.00

Wilmington

17,713.03

26,914.19

9,201.16

Total Lighting Income

$ 81,230.21

$120,889.07

$ 39,658.86

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METERED SALES— RESIDENT LIGHTING

Reading $ 24,319.68

Lynnfield Center 3,121.64

North Reading 5,127.52

Wilmington 10,152.57

Total Resident Lighting Income

$ 42,721.41

METERED SALES— POWER

Reading

$ 19,203.33

$ 33,763.10

Lynnfield Center

256.05

381.03

North Reading

2,173.78

3,068.88

Wilmington

1,709.32

1,121.34

Total Power Income

$ 23,342.48

$ 38,334.35

METERED SALES— COOKING AND HEATING

Reading

$ 7,714.56

$ 14,873.71

Lynnfield Center

656.44

1,285.45

North Reading

2,012.30

3,238.64

Wilmington

2,445.15

4,395.42

Total Cooking and Heating Income $ 12,828.45
METERED SALES— COMBINATION

$ 23,793.22

Reading

$ 6,956.73

$ 3,567.45

Lynnfield Center

545.65

314.51

North Reading

1,038.18

736.97

Wilmington

1,988.90

1,084.04

Total Combination Income

$ 10,529.46

$ 5,702.97

METERED SALES— COMMERCIAL LIGHTING

Reading

$ 7,037.38

Lynnfield Center

336.76

North Reading

1,429.55

Wilmington

2,127.58

Total Commercial Lighting Income

$ 10,931.27

$ 24,319.68
3,121.64
5,127.52
10,152.57

$ 42,721.41

$ 14,559.77

124.98
895.10

587.98

$ 14,991.87

$ 7,159.15
629.01
1,226.34
1,950.27

$ 10,964.77

$ 3,389.28
231.14
301.21
904.86

$ 4,826.49

$ 7,037.38
336.76
1,429.55
2,127.58

$ 10,931.27

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METERED SALES— COMMERCIAL HEATING

Reading

$ 1,334.19

S 1,334.19

Lvnnfield Center

82.02

North Reading

451.45

Wilmington

370.73

Total Commercial Heating Income

$ 2,238.39

METERED SALES COMMERCIAL POWER

Reading

$ 7,456.31

S 7,456.31

Lvnnfield Center

105.91

North Reading

1215.26

121526

Wilmington

1,67426

1.67426

Total Commercial Power Income

$ 10,451.74

SALES TO OTHER ELECTRIC COMPANIES

Wakefield

$ 71.50

5425

$ 17.15

Lowell

46.38

•64.02

17.64

Lawrence

82.80

30.36

52.44

Peabodv

2.16

Total Sales to Other Companies

$ 202.84

148.73

$ 54.11

MUNICIPAL REVENUE— STREET LIGHTING

Reading

$ 13,500.00

Lvnnfield Center

1,97128

1,844.44

$ 126.84

North Reading

3.945.42

3.920.06

25.36

Wilmington

7,510.50

8251.55

741.05

Total Street Lighting Income

$ 26.92720

$ 27,516.05

S 588 25

BUILDINGS

Lighting

$ 3,638.51

2.5S5.75

$ 1,052.76

Power

3.373.01

2.373.58

999.43

Total Income from Mun. Bldgs. $ 7.01L52 S 4.959.33 $ 2,052.19

Total Income from Sales of

Electric Energy S22S.414.97 $221,343.72 $ 7,07125

NOTE: Due to a reduction of rates on Sept. 1 and a reclassification

of Income Accounts, the above figures do not show a fair com-
parison with last year’s.

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EXHIBIT UE”

TOWN OF READING— MUNICIPAL LIGHT DEPARTMENT
COMPARATIVE DETAIL OF EXPENSES— 12 MONTHS ENDING

DECEMBER 31

INCREASE
1928 1927 DECREASE

1. PRODUCTION

E-601 Supt. and Labor

$ 105.00

2,980.80

2,875.80

E-606 Boiler Fuel

4,902.67

E-607 Water for Steam

74.95

142.08

67.13

E-608 Lubricants

73.36

33.00

40.36

E-609 Station Supplies

2,08727

221723

129.96

E-611 Maint. of Sta. Structures

69521

5,827.05

5,131.84

E-612 Maint. of Boiler Plant

Equipment

756.97

252.39

504.58

E-613 Maint. of Steam Engines

1.53

E-614 Maint. of Turbo-Generator

Units

991.47

1,095.45

103.98

E-615 Maint. of Elec. Generating

Equipment

48.15

50.44

229

E-616 Maint. of Accessory Elec.

Equipment

23.47

16422

140.75

E-634 Electric Energy Purchased

62,552.84

49,995.98

12,556.86

Total Production Expense

$ 67,410.22

$ 67,661.31

251.09

2. TRANSMISSION AND DISTRIBUTION

E-636 Transf. Sta. and Sub-Sta-

Supt. and Labor

$ 8,684.51

8,851.16

166.65

E-637 Transf. Sta. and Sub-Sta-

Sup. and Expenses

6,601.36

7203.15

601.79

E-638 Operation of Trans, and

Dist. Lines

21,469.19

16,358.19

5,111.00

E-639 Trans, and Dist. Sup. and

Expenses

292.14

798.96

506.82

E-640 Inspecting and Testing

Meters

1,481.45

1,36322

118.23

E-641 Removing and Resetting

Meters

1,643.37

1,422.00

221.37

E-642 Removing and Resetting

Transformers

577.52

615.84

38.32

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E-646 Maint. of Transf. Sta. and

Sub-Station Equipment

E-647 Maint. of Trans, and Dist.

Lines

E-650 Maint. of Consumers

Meters

E-651 Maint. of Transformers .

Total Trans, and Distribution Exp.

3. UTILIZATION

E-654 Mun. Street Lamps, Labor
E-655 Mun. Street Lamps, Sup.

and Expenses

E-657 Maint. of Mun. St. Lamps
E-659 Maint. of Consumers’ In-
stallations

Total Utilization Expenses

310.26

13,626.70

6,860.16

6,766.54

213.34

132.70

80.64

581.73

601.40

19.67

$ 55,481.57

$ 44,206.78

$ 11,274.79

954.76

1.114.80

160.04

2,027.90

2,100.16

72.26

1,786.93

575.15

1,211.78

3,110.07

2,866.87

243.20

7,879.66

6,656.98

1,222.68

4. COMMERCIAL

E-660 Commercial Salaries .... $ 8,078.01 $ 8,243.30 $ 165.29

E-661 Commercial Sup. and Ex-
pense 1,767.61 2,177.35 409.74

Total Commercial Expenses

$ 9,84-5.62 $ 10,420.65 $ 575.03

5. NEW BUSINESS

E-662 New Business Salaries . .

2,562.50

2,838.72 $

276.22

E-663 New Business Sup. and

Expenses

15.67

23.58

7.91

E-664 Advertising

1,368.39

1,169.31

199.08

Total New Business Expenses

3,946.56

4,031.61 $

85.05

6. MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

E-666 Salary of Manager $ 5,200.00 $ 5,200.00

E-667 Salaries of General Office

Clerks 5,793.09 3,690.99 2,102.10

E-668 General Office Supplies

and Expense 1,956.22 955.75 1,000.47

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E-669 General Office Rents

E-671 Insurance

E-673 Accidents and Damages . .

E-674 Stores Expenses

E-675 Transportation Expense . .

E-676 Inventory Adjustments

E-677 Maint. of Gen. Structure . .

E-678 Depreciation

E-679 Misc. General Expense

Total Miscellaneous and General

Expenses

Total Operating Expenses

410.22

6,133.57

4,255.66

1,877.91

62.44

68.90

6.46

2,458.84

255.66

2,203.18

1,631.30

2,967.34

1,336.04

3,214.85

2,411.28

803.57

13.93

56.80

4JL87

25,951.68

24,533.58

1,418.10

613.52

237.31

376.21

$53,439.66

$ 44,633.27 $ 8,806.39

$198,003.29

$177,610.60 :

£ 20,392.69

SCHEDULE “I”

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242

SCHEDULE “II"

ACCOUNTS PAYABLE— DECEMBER 31, 1928

Voucher

Number Name Amount

1563

Francis Brothers $

48.07

Date of
Oldest Bfll

December

George H. Buckminstefr

34.93

Ernest W. Eames

40.00

December

1560

Kennev Service Station

125.65

December

1559

E. B. Currell k Son

2.80

December

E. B. Currell k Son

17.42

December

Boston k Maine R. R

Steele Furniture Co . .

40.00

December

Mass. Dept, of Public Works . .

273S2

December

Kelvinator Sales Corp

31.94

December

Martin B. Hartshorn

814.44

December

General Electric Co

62.16

December

1550

Dyer- Clark Co

2625

December

1549

M. S. Wright Co

20.50

December

Wetmore- Savage Co

11.84

December

Wetmore- Savage Co

1249

December

Wetmore-Savage Co

123

December

George H. Wahn Co

5201

December

-4

Yye-Xeill Co

17249

December

W. E. & J. F. Twombly

165.43

December

Town of Reading Sewer Dept. ..

8.40

December

Robbins-Phalon Co

3.08

December

1540

M. P. A. Ass’n of Boston

24.00

December

1539

Lowell Electric Light Corp

728

December

Lowell Electric Light Corp

328

December

Lowell Electric Light Corp

.75

December

Lowell Electric Light Corp

December

Alex Lindsav

220

December

Landers, Frarv k Clark

16.07

December

Landers Frarv & Clark

928

December

Landers, Frarv k Clark

1.07

December

John St. Garage

December

1530

Hynes & Cox Elec. Corp

13.50

December

1529

Hynes k Cox Elec. Corp

2420

December

Hvnes k Cox Elec. Corp

18.10

November

Hynes k Cox Elec. Corp

14220

November

Grajbar Electric Co., Inc

.61

December

Gravbar Electric Co., Inc

15.66

December

243

The Goodheart Co

3.00

December

The Goodheart Co

136.50

December

The Goodheart Co

14.95

December

1521

The Goodheart Co

9.10

December

1520

The Goodheart Co

102.00

December

1519

General Electric Co

19.80

December

General Electric Co

53.20

December

General Electric Co

12.44

December

Franchuer, Inc

11.75

December

Electric Time Co

9.84

December

Electric Specialty Co

.75

December

Edison Electric 111. Co

5,623.31

November

Dyer-Clark Co

37.75

December

Dyer-Clark Co

11.25

December

1510

Cummings Express Co

42.98

1509

Clapp & Leach, Inc

30.19

December

Century Electric Co

4.66

December

George H. Buckminister Co

33.75

December

C. Bowen

1.75

Boston & Maine R. R

.50

American Ironing Machine Co. . .

14.20

December

1495

Hygrade Lamp Co

54.72

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co

69.67

December

Wetmore-Savage Co

172.17

December

Wetmore-Savage Co

120.00

December

1490

Wetmore-Savage Co

1.01

1489

Wetmore-Savage Co

12.13

November

Wetmore-Savage Co

3.99

December

George H. Wahn Co

165.91

December

Vye-Neill Co

149.10

December

N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co

82.45

December

National Lamp Works

207.00

December

A. E. Martell Co., Inc

59.46

December

Linscott Motor Co

5.45

December

1480

Lewis Electrical Supply Co

92.13

December

1479

Kelvinator Sales Corp

120.27

December

Gulf Refining Co

54.88

December

Graybar Electric Co., Inc

61.59

December

General Electric Co

1,413.26

December

Dyer-Clark Co

126.65

December

Paul W. Dayton

105.75

Paid in Jan.

George H. Buckminister

635.64

December

Boston & Maine R. R

15.16

1471

Van I. Bennett

59.14

December

1470

J. Brinton Bailey

72.36

December

1469

1468

1467

1460

1459

1450

1449

1440

1439

1430

1429

1426

244

W. H. Willis

2.25

November

Westinghouse Elec. Mfg

7.62

November

Westinghouse Elec. Mfg

310.26

December

F. Wallace

4.29

December

Walker & Pratt Mfg. Co

90.00

December

Wakefield Radiator

3.50

December

R. W. Totten

56.24

December

S. R. Stembridge Co

10.50

December

Standard Underground Cable . . .

13.75

November

Spaulding-Moss Co

1.21

December

Fred F. Smith

36.55

December

Salem St. Service Sta

.70

November

Sager Elec. Supply Co

13.00

December

John A. Roeblings Co

32.00

December

Robbins-Phalon Co

.24

December

Robbins-Phalon Co

1.49

December

Remington Rand Ser., Inc

210.00

December

Reading Motor Co., Inc

73.08

December

Prentiss & Parker

960.41

N. E. Tel. & Tel. Co

34.50

December

George W. Marshall

2.45

December

Lightolier Company

41.70

December

Landers, Frary & Clark

25.20

December

D. M. Laffin

12.50

December

Kelvinator Sales Corp

16.50

December

C. C. Johnson

1.50

December

Jefferson Glass Co

18.25

December

Hynes & Cox Electric Co

148.80

October

Hynes & Cox Electric Co

13.50

December

The Hoover Co

3.96

December

F. S. Hardy & Co

27.90

December

The Goodheart Co

10.50

December

J. W. Gillis. & Co

3.13

December

General Motors Truck Co

.94

December

General Motors Truck Co

.81

December

General Electric Supply Co.

106.00

December

General Electric Supply Co

61.89

November

General Electric Supply Co.

3.50

December

T. C. Fife, Inc

3.80

December

Federal Engraving Co

4.58

December

Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co

3.13

December

Edison Electric 111. Co

1,046.25

December

Frank S. Eaton

S.40

November

Dustbane Mfg. Co

4.65

December

Dustbane Mfg. Co

3.67

December

Orison L. Dickinson

8.00

1420

1419

1393

1392

1390

1384

1378

1368

1361

1360

1359

1337

1333

1329

1325

1320

1312

245

L. W. Dickinson & Son

18.00

October

Davis Transformer Co

74.80

November

Louis Davis

9.47

December

George W. Davis Co

7.75

December

Conover Company

83.70

December

M. F. Charles

22.25

December

Central Garage

7.82

December

Wendell Bancroft & Co

16.65

December

American Ironing Machine Co. . .

216.75

December

American Railway Express

3.33

American Railway Express

6.91

Addressograph Co

17.25

December

H. L. Abbott, Town Clerk

2.00

December

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup. Co.

13.20

December

George H. Wahn Co

91.20

November

Simplex Wire & Cable

158.04

December

General Electric Supply Co

2.18

November

General Electric Supply Co

.62

November

General Electric Supply Co

16.59

November

General Electric Supply Co

2.64

November

Edison Electric 111. Co

5,412.39

George H. Buckminster Co

264.00

November

Wetmore-Savage Co

17.92

November

Wetmore-Savage Co

21.15

November

Vye-Neill Co

1.45

December

Vye-Neill Co

21.75

October

Vye-Neill Co

117.36

November

Simplex Wire & Cable Co

151.00

November

Simplex Wire & Cable Co

33.83

November

Robbins-Phalon Co

288.78

November

Gulf Refining Co

15.20

November

Gulf Refining Co

8.48

November

Graybar Electric Co., Inc

24.26

October

Graybar Electrc Co., Inc

24.26

November

Graybar Electric Co., Inc

4.75

November

Graybar Electric Co., Inc

12.21

November

Granite State Elec. Supply

202.50

November

General Electric Supply

5.60

November

General Electric Supply

18.80

November

General Electric Supply

300.86

November

General Electric Company

550.00

November

General Electric Co

499.85

November

General Electric Co

17.55

November

P. A. Geier Co

405.00

November

Edison Electric 111. Co

1,046.25

George H. Buckminster Co

15.00

November

1309

1297

1287

1280

1279

1266

1259

1249

1223

1218

1209

1200

1198

1188

1177

246

George H. Buckminster Co. .

198.06

November

Van I. Bennett

3.76

November

Graybar Electric Co., Inc. . .

7.60

November

Graybar Electric Co., Inc. . .

30.39

November

General Electric Co., Inc. . . .

3.00

November

General Electric Co., Inc. .

November

General Electric Co., Inc

16.50

November

George H. Buckminster Co.

44.63

November

George H. Buckminster Co. .

5.50

November

Ansonia Electrical Co

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Supply . .
George H. Wahn Co

40.00

1,256.49

419.25

6.30

November

Vye-Neiil Co

10.20

November

Percy N. Sweetser

Robbins-Phalon Co

16.75

3.73

November

Robbins-Phalon Co

4.06

November

National Lamp Works

129.58

November

National Lamp Works

60.03

November

Mass. Reformatory

86.75

November

Kelvinator Sales Corp

123.96

November

Kelvinator Sales Corp

20.07

November

Joslin Show Case Co.‘

110.00

November

Hynes & Cox Electric Corp.

142.80

November

Gulf Refinng Co

40.80

November

General Electric Supply ....

8.55

November

General Electric Supply

163.00

November

George H. Buckminister . . .

2.65

November

Van I. Bennett

5.34

November

George H. Buckminster Co. . .

28.05

October

Angello Zanni

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co.

24.00

413.89

October

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co.

16.40

October

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co.

649.00

October

Vye-Neill Co

20.40

October

Percy N. Sweetser

George H. Wahn Co

73.61

196.11

October

Forwarded

Amount Brought Forward . .
National Lamp Works

$ 28,889.65
$ 28,889.65
79.07

October

Kelvinator Sales Corp

200.85

October

Kelvinator Sales Corp

Graybar Electric Co., Inc. . . .

3.70

16.45

October

Graybar Electric Co., Inc. . .

208.20

October

Graybar Electric Co., Inc. . .

112.50

October

247

General Electric Sup. Co. . . .

5.50

October

General Electric Sup. Co. . . .

17.49

September

General Electric Sup. Co. . . .

140.80

October

1170

P. A. Geier Co

101.25

October

1150

George H. Buckminster Co. .

68.00

October

1149

George H. Buckminster Co.

6.38

October

George H. Buckminster Co.

18.00

October

Van I. Bennett

19.50

October

1134

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co. 184.84

October

1130

Vye-Neill Co

4.06

October

1129

Vye-Neill Co

42.14

October

National Lamp Works

24.84

October

1120

National Lamp Works

69.55

October

1119

National Lamp Works

82.39

October

1108

General Elec. Supply Corp.

16.33

October

1107

General Elec. Supply Corp. . .

18.67

October

1098

George H. Buckminster Co.

28.80

October

George H. Buckminster Co.

15.00

October

Van I. Bennett

40.79

October

1057

George PI. Buckminster Co.

157.69

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co. 35.00

September

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co. 5.25

Vye-Neill Co

221.90

September

1039

Mass. Reformatory

6.75

September

1014

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co. 9.11

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co. 2.33

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co. .51

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co. .57

1010

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co. .78

1009

Wetmore-Savage Elec. Sup.

Co. 99.25

Vye-Neill Co

9.60

September

Vye-Neill Co

4.06

September

985

Mass. Reformatory

106.92

September

Kelvinator Sales Corp

10.09

980

Kelvinator Sales Corp

1.22

September

975

Graybar Electric Co. Inc. . .

1.81

Graybar Electric Co., Inc. . .

135.14

Gravbar Electric Co., Inc. . .

4.50

Graybar Electric Co., Inc. . .

Forwarded

Amount Brought Forward . .

88.52

. . . . $ 31,155.29
.... $31,155.29

954

George H. Buckminster Co.

498.36

George H. Buckminster Co.

1.71

September

850

John A. Roebing’s Sons Co.

110.00

July

1340

The Hoover Company

144.00

November

248

2 Kelvinator Sales Corp 5.35

1125 Rome Wire Co 668.64

1358 Rome Wire Co 59.00

1404 E. E. Harnden 42.84

5 Frank Burke 102.65

6 Hygrade Lamp Co 51.08

7 Hygrade Lamp Co 124.03

8 Hygrade Lamp Co 62.75

9 Hygrade Lamp Co 20.12

1410 George W. Ide 25.00

Total $ 32,732.82

SCHEDULE “III”

MUNICIPAL LIGHT DEPARTMENT
TOWN OF READING— BONDED EMPLOYEES
DECEMBER 31 1928

Amount Duties

Item Name

2 Addie M. Putney

of Bond Premium
$ 1,000.00 $ 2.50

Collection Agency N. Reading

George M. Roundy

1,000.00

2.50

Collection Agency Lynnfield

Clarence L. Thomas

1,000.00

2.50

Assistant Supt.

Arthur G. Sias

1,000.00

2.50

Manager

Edward O. Herrick

1,000.00

2.50

Service Dept. Manager

John R. Anderson

1,000.00

2.50

Service Man

Paul R. Lane

1,000.00

2.50

Receiving Room Clerk

Charles E. Tansey

1,000.00

2.50

Collector

Hazel C. Killam

1,000.00

2.50

Cashier

Christine Cheney

1,000.00

2.50

Ledger Clerk

John W. Babine

1,000.00

2.50

St. Light Service

Kathleen H. Merritt

1,000.00

2.50

Ledger Clerk

E. E. Harnden

1,000.00

2.50

Salesman

Ruth Westcott

1,000.00

2.50

Stenographer

Ralph G. Babcock

1,000.00

2.34

Office Manager

Benjamin J. Downs

1,000.00

2.34

Meter Reader

Leonard C. Whittredge

1,000.00

1.85

Bookkeeper

Doris S. Parker

1,000.00

1.85

Clerk

Joseph B. MacMahon

1,000.00

1.85

Collector — W ilmington

Harold Metcalf

1,000.00

1.25

Meter Reader

Elsie R. Davis

1,000.00

1.06

Demonstrator

Merrill P. Reed

1,000.00

1.04

Service Department

Frank J. Burke

1,000.00

.91

Salesman

$23,000.00 $49.49

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE

TOWN ACCOUNTANT

RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

For the Year Ended December 31

19 28

250

REPORT OF TOWN ACCOUNTANT

Receipts for 1928

Grace V. Viall, Collector

Taxes : Poll $ 5,284.00

Personal Estate 52,020.74

Real Estate 441,802.07

Interest on Taxes 5,832.67

Moth Assessments 913.00

Sewer Assessments and Interest . . 2,645.68

Sewer Rentals 8,271.30

Sidewalk Assessments 177.71

Summons, Costs and Charges, less

fees 577.19

Redemption of property, including

interest and costs 746.45

$518,270.81

Preston F. Nichols, Treasurer

Interests on deposits $ 1,672.93

Interest accrued 158.68

Moth and Tree Work 1927-1928 1,974.00

Sidewalk Work 1928 146.65

Curbing Work 1928 85.96

Tax Titles : Redemption Taxes on property

taken 7,818.41

Sewer Assessment on property taken

1929-1931 20.79

Interests and costs on property taken 2,486.94

Cemetery Bequest Fund :

Bequests 2,607.00

Income 1,260.00

For Transfer 1,842.28

Hospital Fund :

Income 4,758.50

For Transfer 500.00

Reading High School Scholarship Fund :

Income 150.00

For Transfer 100.00

Loans, Antcipation of Revenue 465,000.00

251

Municipal Light Department:

Account Cash Advanced 1,229.62

Lighting Tax Reimbursement 102.89

Insurance Reimbursement 754.29

Water Department :

Insurance Reimbursement 205.68

County of Middlesex, Dog Tax

Commonwealth of Massachusetts:

Income Tax $ 52,770.00

Corporation Tax 10,662.14

National Bank Tax 1,907.29

Trust Company Tax 861.14

Street Railway Tax 909.90

Soldiers’ Exemption 36.77

State Aid 258.00

Military Aid 110.00

Soldiers’ Burial 100.00

Board of Selectmen : Licenses, Etc. :

Second-Hand Motor Vehicles $ 175.00

Motor Bus, 1927 40.00

Motor Bus, 1928 110.00

Taxi-Cab 14.50

Truck .• 23.00

Victualers 29.00

Lord’s Day 177.00

Inn Holder 1.00

Third Class Liquor 1.00

Theatre 5.00

Auctioneers 4.00

Junk Dealers 75.00

Bowling and Pool 20.00

Revolver 23.00

Amusement 35.00

Peddlers 10.00

Transfers 11.00

Advertising Hearings 50.00

Rents Municipal Property

Police Department :

Court Fines $ 643.00

Sale of Auto, etc 66.62

$492,874.62

$1,338.34

$ 67,615.24

$ 803.50

$ 734.00

709.62

252

Fire Department :

Sale of Material, Etc $ 17.75

Sealer of Weights and Meausres*.

Fees 72.08

Commonwealth of Massachusetts :

Peddlers’ Licenses 42.00

Board of Health Licenses, Etc. :

Hair Dressers $ 13.00

Masseuse 1.00

Denatured Alcohol 9.00

Slaughtering 100.00

Undertakers 2.00

Milk and Oleo 25.00

Contagious Diseases Account 42.00

$ 192.00

Board of Public Works :

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Highway Division $ 17.67

Sundry Receipts 44.90

$ 62.57

Board of Public Welfare :

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Mothers’ Aid $ 651.72

Temporary Aid 3,453.68

Commonwealth of Massachusetts and Cities

and Towns reimbursements 1,998.54

Hospital Fund 529.55

Sundry Receipts 219.43

$ 6,852.92

Soldiers’ Relief Account :

Hospital Fund $ 651.00

School Department : •

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Tuition State Wards 3,140.81

Town of North Reading Tuition 5,238.17

City of Melrose 25.58

Town of Wakefield 124.23

City of Boston Tuition City Wards . . . 1,063.69

Sundry Parties Tuition 344.00

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Account of Agricultural Department 1,122.82

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Vocational Education 136.66

Smith-Hughes Fund
Sundry Receipts . .

253

161.78

23.85

Public Lbrary :

Fines, Etc

Special Fund (Gifts)

Cemetery Department :

Sales Lots and Graves $ 2,182.50

Interest on deferred payments 6.52

Care Lots and Graves 3,968.30

Cemetery Bequest Fund for care 1,842.28

Geo. F. Buck Fund for signs 48.12

Guarantee Deposits :

Sewer House Connections $ 1,822.66

Curbing Construction 522.62

Sidewalk Work 823.61

Water Department:

Meter Rates, Etc

Municipal Light Department :

Light and Power Rates, Etc

Insurance — Rebates on Premiums, Sundry De-
partments

Edison Electric Illuminating Co. in lieu of

taxes 1927

Sale of Land taken for taxes (2 parcels)

Sale of Land, First Congregational Church . . .

Other receipts :

Sale Hose House $ 50.00

Board of Assessors 18.00

Collector of Taxes 18.00

Cemetery Department 30.00

Board of Health Contagious Diseases 5.00

Unidentified Cash 2.00

Refunds :

School Department $ 2.00

Soldiers’ Relief Account 35.00

Cemetery Department

Laurel Hill 4.00

$ 11,381.59

$ 422.00

72.60

$ 8,047.72

$ 3,168.89
$ 53,613.46

270,092.98

802.87

588.05

250.00

748.25

$ 123.00

Forest Glen . . .
Library Department

254

2.00

4.81

$ 47.81

Total Receipts

$1,439,595.67

PAYMENTS

GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Selectmen’s Expenses $ 284.82

Selectmen’s Clerical 1,310.00

Town Accountant’s Salary 2,000.00

Treasurer’s Salary 1,200.00

Treasurer’s Expenses 710.13

Collector’s Salary 2.000.00

Collector’s Expenses 1,043.23

Collector’s Clerical 197.75

Assessors’ Salaries 1,800.00

Assessors’ Expenses 1,395.97

Assessors’ Clerical 2,200.00

Block System Survey 53.00

Town Counsel’s Salary 500.00

Town Counsel’s Expenses 46.52

Town Clerk’s Salary 350.00

Town Clerk’s Expenses 579.61

Bd. of Pub. Wks. Sal. and Off. Exp 5,200.00

Registrars’ Salaries 250.00

Election and Registration Expenses 1,705.82

$ 22,826.85

GENERAL ACCOUNTS

Miscellaneous Expenses $ 2,403.17

Muncipal Building Maintenance 3,292.84

Fire Stations, Maintenance 1,098.99

Victory House, Light 106.04

G. A. R. Rooms, Light 11.88

Insurance 6,703.74

Interest 27,482.92

Maturing Debt, not including Water, Light or

Sewer 56,000.00

Planning Board Expenses 15.00

$ 97,114.58

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PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY

Police Dept., Maintenance $ 2,992.16

Police Dept., Salaries 25,309.02

Police Dept., Special Officers 415.24

Fire Dept., Maintenance 2,205.79

Fire Dept., Salaries 17,375.15

Fire Dept., Call Men, Salaries 3,365.00

Fire Alarm, Maintenance and New Boxes 1,152.30

Moth Dept., Maintenance 5,992.71

Tree Warden, Maintenance 1,988.38

Forest Warden, Maintenance 384.58

Hydrant Rentals 7,875.00

Drinking Fountains 100.00

Inspector of Buildings, Salary 500.00

Inspector of Wires, Salary 100.00

Sealer of W. and M., Salary 400.00

Sealer of W. and M., Expenses 174.72

HEALTH AND SANITATION

Board of Health, Salaries $ 300.00

Board of Health, Expenses 711.86

Inspector of Plumbing, Salary 800.00

Inspector of Animals, Salary 200.00

Inspector of Milk, Salary 100.00

Care of Contagious Diseases 1,832.25

Garbage Collection 2,300.00

HIGHWAYS

Highway Dept., Maintenance $ 44,644.24

Sidewalk Construction 5,000.00

Snow and Ice Removal 3,536.85

Cleaning Drainage Ditches 3,000.00

Drainage System 11,035.00

Street Lighting

CHARITIES AND AID

Board of Public Welfare :

Visitor’s Salary $ 400.00

Clerical Salary 352.00

Aid, Board and Care 10,391.48

Mothers’ Aid 3,427.50

$ 70,330.05

$ 6,244.11

$ 67,2 16.09
$ 13,500.00

256

Temporary Aid 2>967-94

SOLDIERS’ BENEFITS

State Aid $ mm

Military Aid .. 683 00

Soldiers’ Relief 5,742.86

EDUCATION

School Department :

General Maintenance $ 47,693.57

General Salaries 166,288.41

Agricultural Maintenance 56.34

Agricultural Salaries 2,379.34

Industrial Tuition 294.75

Public Library Maintenance $ 3,226.33

Public Library Salaries 4,207.66

RECREATION

Park Dept., Maintenance

CEMETERIES

Laurel Hill Cemetery, Maintenance $ 10,785.85

Forest Glen Cemetery, Development 509.65

MEMORIAL DAY

Memorial Day Observance

OTHER PAYMENTS

G. A. R. Rooms, Rent $ 360.00

Care Soldiers’ Graves 500.00

Child Welfare Work 300.00

Middlesex Co. Bur. of Agri 100.00

Victory House, Maintenance 499.68

Sundry Payments, unclassified 70.64

Junior High School Building 282.19

Sewer Dept., Maintenance 12,075.62

Sewer Dept., House Connections 1,749.62

Water Dept., Maintenance, etc 50,244.57

Water Mains Extension 3,353.92

Municipal Light Dept., Maintenance, etc 271,433.15

State Taxes 21,795.65

County Tax 21,112.14

$ 17,538.92
$ 6,599.86

$216,712.41

$ 7,433.99
$ 2,000.00

$ 11,295.50
$ 442.80

257

Metropolitan Sewer Assessments 12,679.35

Temporary Loans, Ant. of Rev 465,000.00

Cemetery Bequest Fund Transfer 5,709.28

Hospital Fund Transfer 5,258.50

Reading High Sch. Scholarship Fund, Transfer 250.00

Smith-Hughes Fund Agricultural Salaries .197.98

Mineral Street Bridge 4,700.00

Land Damages 191.98

Painting Stand Pipe 200.00

Guaranteed Deposits Refunds 175.43

Refunds, 1927-1928 Taxes 520.82

$878,760.52

Total Payments $1,418,015.68

TREASURER'S CASH

Balance on hand Jan. 1, 1928 $ 22,849.59

Receipts, 1928 1,439,595.67

$1,462,445.26

Payments, 1928 1,418,015.68

Balance on hand, Dec. 31, 1928 $ 44,429.58

APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1928
GENERAL GOVERNMENT

Selectmen’s Expenses $ 300.00

Selectmen’s Clerical 1,310.00

Town Accountant’s Salary 2,000.00

Treasurer’s Salary 1,200.00

Treasurer’s Expenses 500.00

Collector’s Salary 2,000.00

Collector’s Expenses 1,000.00

Collector’s Clerical 200.00

Assessors’ Salaries 1,800.00

Assessors’ Expenses 1,400.00

Assessors’ Clerical 2,200.00

Block System Survey 100.00

Town Counsel’s Salary 500.00

Town Counsel’s Expenses 100.00

Town Clerk’s Salary 350.00

Town Clerk’s Expenses 600.00

Board of Pub. Wks. Sal. and Off. Exp 5,200.00

258

Registrars’ Salaries 250.00

Election and Registration Expenses 1,000.00

$ 22,010.00

GENERAL ACCOUNTS

Miscellaneous Expenses $ 2,500.00

Municipal Bldg., Maintenance » 2,800.00

Fire Stations, Maintenance and Repairs 1,000.00

Victory House, Light 150.00

G. A. R. Rooms, Light 25.00

Insurance 1 5,000.00

Interest 27,000.00

Maturing Debt from Tax Levy 41,000.00

$ 79,475.00

PROTECTION OF PERSONS AND PROPERTY

Police Dept., Maintenance $ 2,300.00

Police Dept., Salaries 25,361.00

Police Dept., Special Officers 300.00

Fire Dept., Maintenance 2,300.00

Fire Dept., Salaries 17,375.15

Fire Dept., Call Men Salaries 3,367.00

Fire Alarm, Maintenance 800.00

Moth Dept., Maintenance 6,000.00

Tree Warden, Maintenance 2,000.00

Forest Warden, Maintenance 500.00

Inspector of Buildings, Salary 500.00

Inspector of Wires, Salary 100.00

Sealer of W. and M., Salary 400.00

Sealer of W. and M., Expenses 150.00

$ 61,453.15

Hydrant Rentals $ 7,875.00

Drinking Fountains 100.00

$ 7,975.00

HEALTH AND SANITATION

Board of Health, Salaries $ 300.00

Board of Health, Expenses 600.00

Inspector of Plumbing, Salary 800.00

Inspector of Animals, Salary 200.00

Inspector of Milk, Salary 100.00

Care of Contagious Diseases 2,000.00

Garbage Collection 2,300.00

$ 6,300.00

259

HIGHWAYS

Highway Dept., Maintenance $ 4-5,000.00

Sidewalk Construction 5,000.00

Snow and Ice Removal 5,000.00

Maintenance of Storm Drains 3,000.00

Street Lighting

CHARITIES AND AID

Board of Public Welfare :

Visitor’s Salary $ 400.00

Clerical Salary 352.00

Aid, Board and Care 10,000.00

Mothers’ Aid 4,000.00

Temporary Aid 2,500.00

SOLDIERS’ BENEFITS

State Aid $ 300.00

Military Aid 700.00

Soldiers’ Relief 4,000.00

EDUCATION

School Department :

General Maintenance $ 49,650.00

General Salaries 169,500.00

Agricultural Maintenance 500.00

Agricultural Salaries 2,737.50

Industrial Tuition 800.00

Public Library, Maintenance $ 3,200.00

Public Library, Salaries 4,230.00

RECREATION

Park Dept., Maintenance

CEMETERIES

Laurel Hill Cemetery, Maintenance $ -8,900.00

Forest Glen Cemetery, Development* 750.00

—

MEMORIAL DAY

Memorial Day Observance

$ 58,000.00
$ 13,500.00

$ 17,252.00
$ 5,000.00

$223,187.50
$ 7,430.00.
$ 2,000.00

$ 9,650.00

$ 500.00

260

OTHER APPROPRIATIONS

Storm Water Drainage $ 10,000.00

Mineral Street Bridge 9,000.00

Child Welfare Work 300.00

Middlesex Co. Bu. of Agri 100.00

Maintenance Victory House 500.00

Rent G. A. R. Rooms 360.00

Care Soldiers’ Graves 500.00

Land Damages 200.00

Land Damages 50.00

Painting Standpipe 200.00

$ 21,210.00

Total Appropriations from Tax Levy $534,942.65

APPROPRIATIONS NOT FROM TAX LEVY

Reserve Fund from E. and D. Account $ 3,000.00

Reserve Fund from Overlay Account 2,000.00

Maturing Debt from E. and D. Account 15,000.00

Overdrafts, 1927 from E. and D. Account 3,374.67

$ 23,374.67

RECAPITULATION

Town Expenses, Debt, Etc $534,942.65

State Taxes and Assessments 34,475.00

County Taxes 21,112.14

$590,529.79

Overlay . . ; 3,766.49

VALUATION

1928

Real Estate $ 13,463,780.00

Personal Estate .... 1,573,345.00

Total Valuation $ 15,037,125.00

Assessed @ $33.50:

Real Estate Tax 451,039.67

Personal Estate 52,712.61

$ 503,752.28

Poll Tax @ $2.00 .... 5,544.00

$594,29628

APPROPRIATIONS

Town Purposes . . $
State and County

534.942.65

Taxes, Etc. . . .

55,587.14

Overlay

3,766.49

$594,29628

Less Est. Receipts

85,000.00

$ 509,29628

$50929628

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December Commitment

Real Estate $ 2,900.00 Real Est. Tax $ 97.15

Personal Estate 300.00 Personal Estate Tax . . 10.05

$ 3,200.00

$ 107.20

STATE AND COUNTY TAXES, ASSESSMENTS, ETC.

1928

Commonwealth of Massachusetts :

State Tax $ 18,105.00

State Highway Tax 3,469.05

Fire Prevention Tax 118.71

Municipal Lighting Tax 102.89

Metropolitan Sewerage Assessments 12,679.35

County of Middlesex, County Taxes 21,112.14

Accounting Taxes and Assessments
TAXES, 1925

Balance uncollected, Jan. 1, 1928 $ 521.10

Collected 1928

Abatements

$ 55,587.14

171.00

350.10

TAXES 1926

Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1928 $

Collected 1928

Abatements

$ 521.10 $ 521.10

170.62

44.14

126.48

$ 170.62 $ 170.62

TAXES 1927

Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1928 ■ $155,628.76

Additional Commitment 2.00

Adjustments 1.40

Collected 1928 $150,550.52

Abatements 899.87

Transfers to Tax Titles 3,982.20

Balance to 1929 199.57

$155,632.16 $155,632.16

262

TAXES, 1928

Commitments, 1928

Commitment December

Collected

Abatements

Transfer to Tax Titles

Balance to 1929

$509,406.28

107.20

$348,341.15

1,924.92

3,573.15

155,674.26

$509,513.48

MOTH 1927

Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1928 $

322.75

Collected 1928

322.25

Adjustment

.50

322.75

MOTH 1928

Commitment

Collected 1928

967.00

590.75

Balance to 1929

376.25

967.00

SIDEWALK ASSESSMENT

1928

Commitment 1928

Collected 1928

177.71

SEWER ASSESSMENT

U napportioned

Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1928

153.75

Betterments assessed in 1928

Collected in 1928

510.58

153.75

Apportioned

’

180.50

Abatement

55.40

Balance to 1929

274.68

664.33

SEWER ASSESSMENT

Apportionment of 1927

Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1928

Collected 1928

716.66

700.62

Transfer to Tax Title Account

16.04

$ 716.66 $ 716.66

263

SEWER ASSESSMENTS
Apportionment of 1928

Commitment 1928 $ 1,808.76

Collected 1928 $ 1,015.28

Transfer to Tax Titles 16.04

Balance to 1929 777.44

$ 1,808.76 $ 1,808.76

INTEREST ON SEWER ASSESSMENTS

Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1928 $ 201.32

Commitment 1928 455.13

Additional charges 47.69

Adjustment .81

Collected $ 504.13

Transfer to Tax Titles Account 6.59

Transfer to Adjustment 5.07

Balance to 1929 189.16

$ 704.95 $ 704.95

SEWER ASSESSMENTS

Apportioned Receivable — Deferred Payment* 1928 to 1936

Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1928 $ 7,708.43

Assessments 1928 138.50

Receipts 1928 Advanced Payments $ 250.69

Committed to Collector, 1928 1,808.76

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 5,787.48

$ 7,846.93 $ 7,846.93

SEWER RENTALS

Balance uncollected Jan. 1, 1928 $ 119.40

Charged in 1928 8,488.80

Collected in 1928 $ 8,271.30

Abatements 11.70

Transfer to Tax Titles Account 17.70

Balance to 1929 307.50

$8,608.20 $ 8,608.20

OVERLAY 1925

Balance Jan. 1, 1928 $ 521.10

Abatements 1928 $ 350.10

Transfer to Overlay Reserve 171.00

$ 521.10 $ 521.10

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OVERLAY

1926

Balance Jan 1, 1928

Abatements 1928

.... $

126.48

170.62

Transfer to Overlay Reserve Fund ....

44.14

170.62

OVERLAY

1927

Balance Jan. 1, 1928

Refunds 1928

... $

242.76

1,166.44

Abatements 1928

899.67

Balance to 1929

24.01

1,166.44

OVERLAY

1928

Appropriation

Refunds

... $

278.06

3,766.49

Abatements

1,924.92

Balance to 1929

1,563.51

3,766.49

OVERLAY RESERVE

FUND

Balance Jan. 1, 1928

2,303.94

Transfer from Overlay, 1925

171.00

Transfer from Overlay, 1926

44.14

Transfer from E. and D. Account

Transfer to Reserve Fund

... $

2,000.00

431.16

Balance to 1929

950.24

2,950.24

DEPARTMENTAL

ACCOUNTS

Receivable

Balance Jan. 1, 1928

$ 11,007.65

Charges in 1928

32,787.28

Received in 1928

. . . $ 25,716.95

Credits, Etc

574.56

Committed to Collector 1928

1,144.71

Balance to 1929

16,358.71

$ 43,794.93 $ 43,794.93

WATER DEPARTMENT
Accounts Receivable

Dr.

Balance Jan. 1, 1928

$ 377.41

265

Meter Rates, Etc., Charged in 1928 54,093.76

Cr. * T

Receipts 1928 $53,613.46

Discounts, Etc 500.25

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 357.46

$ 54,471.17 $ 54.471.17

MUNICIPAL LIGHT DEPARTMENT
Accounts Receivable
Dr.

Balance Jan. 1, 1928 $ 35,430.19

Light, Power, Etc., charged 1928 289,649.55

Cr.

Receipts, 1928 $270,092.98

Discounts and Adjustments 20,625;95

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 34,360.81

$325,079.74 $325,079.74

CEMETERY RESERVE FUND

Cr.

Balance Jan 1, 1928 $ 1,876.20

Receipts, Sale Lots and Graves and Int 2,189.02

Dr.

Refund $ 25.00

Balance to 1929 4,040.22

$ 4,065.22 $ 4,065.22

TAX TITLES (HELD BY TOWN)

Dr.

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928 $ 7,936.90

Adjustments 1,635.29

Taxes, Etc. on property taken 6,299.48

Cr.

Receipts for redemption $ 8,554.86

Adjustments 780.73

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928 6,536.08'

$ 15,871.67 $ 15,871.67

RESERVE FUND

Cr.

Appropriation $ 5,000.00

266

Dr.

Transfers to Sundry Accounts $ 4,995.39

Balance to Revenue 4.61

$ 5.000.00 $ 5,000.00

EXCESS AND DEFICIENCY ACCOUNT

Cr.

Balance from 1927 $ 27,763.41

Receipts, Redemption of Property 8,429.87

Transfers, Etc 36,732.45

Adjustment .90

Dr.

Appropriations, 1928 $ 21,374.67

Adjustments 568.61

To Tax Titles Revenue 7,417.90

Balance to 1929 43,565.45

$ 72,926.63 $ 72,926.63

APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS
Selectmen’s Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation $ 300.00

Dr.

Stationary and Postage $ 20.12

Printing and Advertising 146.40

Telephone 9325

All Other 25.05

Total Payments $ 284.82

Balance to Revenue 15.18

$ 300.00 $ 300.00

Selectmen’s Clerical

Cr.

Appropriation $ 1,310.00

Dr.

Leon G. Bent $ 1,310.00

$ 1,310.00 $ 1,310.00

Appropriation

Town Accountant’s Salary

Cr.

$ 2,000.00

267

Dr.

Leon G. Bent

2,000.00

Treasurer’s Salary

Cr.

Appropriation

1,200.00

Dr.

Preston F. Nichols

1,200.00

$1,200.00

1,200.00

Treasurer’s Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation

500.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund

210.13

Dr.

Stationary and Postage

67.22

Land Court Expense

216.50

Certification of Notes

34.00

Bond

220.00

Telephone

70.44

All Other

101.97

Total Payments

710.13

Tax Collector’s Salary

Cr.

Appropriation

2,000.00

Dr.

Grace V. Viall

2,000.00

Tax Collector’s Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation

1,000.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund

50.00

Dr.

Stationary and Postage

155.97

Printing and Advertising

117.03

Bond

440.00

Office Equipment

171.00

Registry of Deeds

59.40

Telephone

.53.05

268

All Others 46.78

Total Payments $ 1,04323

Balance to Revenue 6.77

$ 1,050.00 $ 1,050.00

Tax Collector’s Clerical

Cr.

Appropriation $ 200.00

Dr.

Various Parties $ 197.75

Balance to Revenue 225

$ 200.00 $ 200.00

Board of Assessors’ Salaries

Cr.

Appropriation $ 1,800.00

Dr.

Alvah W. Clark $ 600.00

Geo. E. Horrocks 600.00

J Fred Richardson 600.00

$ 1,800.00 $ 1,800.00

Board of Assessors’ Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation $ 1,400.00

Dr.

Assistant Assessors $ 97.50

Other Clerical 19825

Stationary and Printing 136.64

Printing Poll List 560.00

Auto Hire 69.00

Telephone 48.92

Transfers 46.30

Office Equipment 171.00

All Other 68.36

Total Payments $ 1,395.97

Balance to Revenue 4.03

$ 1,400.00 $ 1,400.00

269

Board of Assessors’ Clerical

Cr.

Appropriation $ 2,200.00

Dr.

Christine F. Atkinson $ 1,300.00

Philomena C. Doucette 900.00

$ 2,200.00 $ 2,200.00

Block System Survey
Cr.

Appropriation $ 100.00

Dr.

Davis & Abbott $ 53.00

Balance to 1929 47.00

$ 100.00 $ 100.00

Town Counsel’s Salary
* Cr.

Appropriation $ 500.00

Dr.

Melville F. Weston $ 500.00

$ 500.00 $ 500.00

Town Counsel’s Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation $ 100.00

Dr.

Clerical $ 25.00

All Other 21.52

Total Payments $ 46.52

Balance to Revenue 53.48

$ 100.00 $ 100.00

Appropriation
Millard F. Charles

T own Clerk’s Salary

Cr.

Dr.

$ 350.00

350.00

$ 350.00 $ 350.00

270

Town Clerk’s Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation $ 600.00

Dr.

Canvassing Births $ 65.00

Recording, Etc 281.50

Stationary and Postage 56.78

Reporting Returns 26.75

Bond 8.50

Clerical Assistance 69.75

All Other 71.33

Total Payments $ 579.61

Balance to Revenue 20.39

$ 600.00 $ 600.00

Board of Public Works

Cr.

Appropriation * $ 5,200.00

Dr.

Superintendent’s Salary $ 3,300.00

Clerical 1,300.00

Bonds 34.50

Stationary, Etc 172.42

Postage and Advertising 89.82

Telephone 201.67

Insurance 34.63

All Other 66.96

$ 5,200.00 $ 5,200.00

Miscellaneous Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation $ 2,500.00

Dr.

Printing Town Reports $ 1,264.00

Stationary and Printing, Accounting Dept 355.89

Office Equipment 151.00

Old South Clock and Reading Sign, care and

lighting 352.66

Richardson House Expense 64.99

Finance Com. Expense 114.90

Board of Appeal Expense 31.63

Inspector of Buildings, Expense 14.55

Inspector of Wires, Expense

9.50

All Other

44.05

Total Payments

2,403.17

Balance to Revenue

96.83

2,500.00

Board of Registrars' Salaries

Cr.

Appropriation

250.00

Dr.

Walter S. Prentiss

. $

60.00

Owen McKenney

60.00

Preston F. Nichols

25.00

Robert S. Ralston

35.00

Millard F. Charles, Clerk

70.00

250.00

Election Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation i

1,000.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund

709.12

Dr.

Election Officers

• $

1,106.54

Rent of Hall

236.00

Printing

165.03

Installing Booths and Additional Equipment . ,

159.22

All Other

39.03

Total Payments

■ $

1,705.82

Balance to Revenue

3.30

1,709.12

Municipal Building, Maintenance

Cr.

Appropriation

2,800.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund

500.00

Dr.

Janitor’s Services

. $

1,040.00

Fuel

179.80

Light

737.84

Water and Sewer

58.25

Repairs and Equipment

1,035.49

Supplies

Boiler Insurance
All Other

272

113.88

109.85

17.73

Total Payments $ 3*292.84

Balance to Revenue 7.16

Total Payments $ 3*292.84

Balance to Revenue 7.16

3,300.00

Fire Stations, Maintenance

Cr.

Appropriation

1,000.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund . .

100.00

Dr.

Fuel

310.68

Light

303.75

Water and Sewer

94.90

Repairs

240.01

Insurance

135.90

All Other

13.75

Total Payments

1,098.99

Balance to Revenue

1.01

1,100.00

Victory House, Lighting

Cr.

Appropriation

150.00

Dr.

Municipal Light Dept

106.04

Balance to Revenue

43.96

150.00

G. A. R.

Rooms, Lighting

Cr.

Appropriation

25.00

Dr.

Municipal Light Dept

11.88

Balance to Revenue ...

13.12

$ 25.00 $ 25.00

G. A. R. Rooms, Rent

Cr.

Appropriation

$ 360.00

273

Dr.

M. E. Brande $ 360.00

Insurance

Cr.

Appropriation

360.00

$ 360.00

$ 5,000.00

Rebates, Return Premiums, Etc.

1,762.84

Transfer from Reserve Fund . . .

206.36

Various Parties, Premiums

Dr.

... $

6,703.74

Balance to Revenue

265.46

6,969.20

$ 6,969.20

Interest

Cr.

Appropriation

$ 27,000.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund . . .

482.92

Interest on Temp. Loans

Dr.

... $

7,256.01

All Other

20,226.91

$ 27,482.92

Police Department, Maintenance

$ 27,482.92

Appropriation

Cr.

$ 2,300.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund . . .

700.00

Telephone

Dr.

... $

189.77

Auto and Motor Cycle Expense

1,162.90

Chief’s Expenses

65.76

Traffic Signals and Street Lines

590.81

Printing

21.95

Equipment

422.29

Insurance

158.38

All Other

380.30

Total Payments

.... $

2,992.16

Balance to Revenue

7.84

$ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00

274

Appropriation

Police Department, Salaries

Cr.

$ 25,361.00

Pay Rolls . . . .

Dr.

$ 25,309.02

Balance to

Revenue 51.98

$ 25,361.00

Appropriation

Police Department, Special Police

Cr.

$ 300.00

Pay Rolls . . .

Dr.

$ 41524

Balance to

1929

115.24

$ 415.24 $ 415.24

Fire Department, Maintenance

Cr.

Appropriation $ 2,300.00

Dr.

Telephones $ 124.24

Equipment, Repairs and Maintenance 1,551.49

All Other 530.06

Total Payments $ 2,205.79

Balance to Revenue 94.21

$ 2,300.00 $ 2,300.00

Fire Department, Salaries

Appropriation

Cr.

$ 17,375.15

Pay Rolls

Dr.

.... $ 17,375.15

$ 17,375.15 $ 17,375.15

Fire Department, Call Men, Salaries

Cr.

Appropriation r ......... . $ 3,367.00

Dr.

Pay Rolls

$ 3,365.00

275

Balance tc Revenue 2.00

3,367.00

Fire Alarm, Maintenance

Cr.

Appropriation \

800.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund

400.00

Dr.

Pay Roll

200.39

Auto Expense

118.26

Material and Supplies

797.58

All Other

36.07

Total Payments

1,152.30

Balance to Revenue

47.70

1,200.00

Forest Warden, Maintenance

Cr.

Appropriation

500.00

Dr.

Pay Roll

17.25

Supplies

351.03

All Other

16.30

Total Payments

384.58

Balance to Revenue

115.42

500.00

Moth Department, Maintenance

Cr.

Appropriation

6,000.00

Dr.

Pay Roll

4,418.40

Telephone

29.28

Auto Expense

384.18

Rent

96.00

Material and Supplies

658.98

Insurance

322.97

All Other

82.90

Total Payments

$ 5,992.71

276

Balance to Revenue

7.29

$ 6,000.00 $ 6,000.00

Tree Warden, Maintenance

Appropriation

Pay Roll

Material and Supplies
All Other

Cr.

Dr.

$ 2,000.00

$ 1,300.38
662.00
26.00

Total Payments $ 1,988.38

Balance to Revenue 11.62

$ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00

* 0 f • 1 Hydrant Rentals

Cr.

Appropriation $ 7,875.00

Dr.

Water Dept $ 7,875.00

Appropriation
Water Dept.

Drinking Fountains

Cr.

Dr.

$ 7,875.00 $ 7,875.00

$ 100.00

$ 100.00 $ 100.00

Inspector of Buildings

Appropriation

Cr.

$ 500.00

A. Russell Barnes

Dr.

.... $ 500.00

Inspector of Wires

Cr.

$ 500.00 $ 500.00

Appropriation

$ 100.00

277

Dr.

Clarence L. Thomas $ 25.00

Hugh L. Eames 75.0(5

Clarence L. Thomas $ 25.00

Hugh L. Eames 75.0(5

100.00

Sealer of Weights and Measures

Cr.

Appropriation

400,00

Dr.

Carl M. Smith

400.00

J: , ‘

400.00

Sealer of Weights and Measures,

Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation

150.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund

25^00

Dr.

Auto Expense — .................

136.00

Insurance

15.68

All Other

23.04

Total Payments

174.72

Balance to Revenue

.28

175.00

Board of Health, Salaries

Cr.

Appropriation

300.00

Dr.

E. M. Halligan, M. D., Chairman

75.00

C. H. Playdon, M. D. V

75.00

C. F. Atkinson, Secretary

150.00

300.00

Board of Health, Expenses

Cr.

Appropriation $ 600.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund 111.86

Dr.

Supplies $ 28.63

Labor on Dumps 336.52

Telephone 45.41

Inspection of Slaughtering
All Other

278

200.00

101.30

Total Payments $ 711.86 $ 711.86

Inspector of Plumbing

Cr.

Appropriation $ 800.00

Dr.

David Taggart $ 800.00

$ 800.00 $ 800.00

Care of Contagious Diseases

Cr.

Appropriation $ 2,000.00

Dr.

Hospital Care $ 1,580.60

Medical Attendance 216.00

Supplies 35.65

Total Payments $ 1,832.25

Balance to Revenue * 167.75

$ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00

Garbage Collection

Cr.

Appropriation $ 2,300.00

Dr.

Jos. Farpelha $ 2,300.00

$ 2,300.00 $ 2,300.00

Inspector of Animals

Cr.

Appropriation $ 200.00

Dr.

C. H. Playdon, M. D. V $ 200.00

$ 200.00 $ 200.00

Inspector of Milk

Cr.

Appropriation

$ 100.00

279

Dr.

Carl M. Smith $ 100.00

$ 100.00 $ 100.00

SEWER DEPARTMENT
Construction and Maintenance

Cr.

Balance from 1927 $ 12,848.16

Receipts 1928 : 10,916.98

Transfers, Etc 1,586.4-8

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 2,949.95

Bonds 8,000.00

Equipment and Supplies 592.60

Repairs < 19.28

Auto Expense 190.04

Insurance 227.26

All Other 96.49

Total Payments $ 12,075.62

Balance to 1929 13,276.00

$ 25,351.62 $ 25,351.62

SEWER DEPARTMENT
House Connections

Cr.

Balance from 1927 $ 1,564.67

Receipts 1928, Guarantee Deposits 1,822.66

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 875.59

Equipment and Supplies 587.86

Auto Expense 28.52

Refunds on Deposits 211.42

All Other 46.23

Total Payments $ 1,749.62

Transfer to Maintenance Account 1,437.71

Balance to 1929 200.00

$ 3,387.33 $ 3,387.33

Highway Department

Cr.

Appropriation

$ 45,000.00

280

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 16,012.25

Telephone 79.56

Equipment and Repairs 5,343.75

Material and Supplies . 18,489.62

Truck and Auto Expense 1,566.04

Insurance 1,679.84

Street Signs 567.56

All Other 905.62

Total Payments $ 44,644.24

Balance to Revenue 355.76

$45,000.00 $ 45,000.00

Sidewalk Construction

Cr.

Appropriation $ 5,000.00

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 1,150.96

Construction per Contract (Granolithic) 1,581.09

Construction, Repairs per Contract (Tar) 1,819.43

Material 422.59

All Other 25.93

Total Payments $ 5,000.00 $ 5,000.00

Snow and Ice Removal

Cr.

Appropriation $ 5,000.00

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 1,653.95

Plowing and Hauling 484.50

Equipment and Repairs 1,101.78

Truck and Auto Expense 167.73

Material 96.51

All Other 32.38

Total Payments $ 3,536.85

Balance to Revenue 1,463.15

$ 5,000.00 $ 5,000.00

Appropriation

Cleaning Drainage Ditches

Cr.

$ 3,000.00

281

$ 1,603.11
1,327.84
69.05

Dr.

Pay Roll

Material and Supplies ...
All Other

Total Payments

Drainage System

Cr.

Balance from 1927

Appropriation

Dr.

Construction per Contract

Engineering Fees

Material and Repairs

All Other

$ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00

$ 1,041.55

10,000.00

$ 9,636.0 3
962.39
351.81
84.77

Total Payments $ 11,035.00

Balance to 1929 6.55

$ 11,041.55 $ 11,041.55

Appropriation .

Street Lighting

Cr.

$ 13,500.00

Municipal Light

Dr.

Dept

$ 13,500.00

Appropriation . .

Board of Public Welfare
Clerical

Cr.

$ 13,500.00

$ 13,500.00
$ 352.00

Leon G. Bent . . .

Dr.

$ 352.00

$ 352.00 $ 352.00

Board of Public Welfare
Visitor

Appropriation

Cr.

$ 400.00

Helen A. Brown

Dr.

$ 400.00

$ 400.00 $ 400.00

282

Board of Public Welfare
Aid, Board and Care

Cr.

Appropriation $ 10,000.00

Receipts, Hospital Fund 529.55

Dr.

Cash and Board $ 6,050.16

Rent 645.00

Fuel and Groceries 1,461.24

Hospital and Medical 940.55

Comm, of Mass., Other Cities and Towns 938.00

All Other 356.53

Total Payments $ 10,391.48

Balance to Revenue 138.07

$ 10.529.55 $ 10,529.55

Mothers’ Aid

Cr.

Appropriation $ 4,000.00

Dr.

Cash $ 2,749.00

Fuel and Groceries 218.65

Medical 459.85

Total Payments $ 3,427.50

Balance to Revenue - 572.50

$ 4,000.00 $ 4,000.00

Temporary Aid

Cr.

Appropriation $ 2,500.00

Transfer from Reserve Fund 500.00

Dr.

Cash $ 1,855.00

Rent 480.00

Fuel and Groceries 583.74

Medical 49.20

Total Payments $ 2,967.94

Balance to Revenue 32.06

$ 3,000.00 $ 3,000.00

283

State Aid

Cr.

Appropriation $ 300.00

Dr.

Cash Payments :

Acct. Civil War $ 102.00

Acct. World War ‘ 72.00

Total Payments $ 174.00

Balance to Revenue 126.00

$ 300.00 $ 300.00

Military Aid

Cr.

Appropriation $ 700.00

Dr.

Cash Payments :

Acct. World War $ 683.00

Balance to Revenue 17.00

Soldiers’ Relief

Cr.

Appropriation

Refunds

Hospital Fund

Transfer from Reserve Fund

Dr.

Cash Payments :

Acct. Civil War

Acct. Spanish War

Acct. World War

Rent, Acct. World War

Fuel, Groceries

Medical and Hospital

Comm, of Mass

All Other

Total Payments

Balance to 1929

$ 700.00 $ 700.00

$ 4,000.00
35.00
651.00
1,000.00

$ 654.00

780.00
2,511.00
579.75
73.25
663.43
437.13
44.30

$ 5,742.86

56.86

$ 5,742.86 $ 5,742.86

294

SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
General Salaries

Cr:

Appropriation $169,500.00

Dr.

Pay Roll, Supt. Tea. and Clerical $146,936.05

Medical Inspection 1,000.00

School Nurse 1,900.00

Attendance Officer 500.00

Janitors 15,9 52.36

Total Payments $166,288.41

Balance to Revenue 3,211.59

$169,500.00 $169,500.00

General Maintenance

Cr.

Appropriation $ 49,650.00

Dr.

Transportation $ 5,393.50

Tuition 158.57

Books 4,856.28

Supplies for Pupils 6,191.17

Apparatus for Teaching 2,909.06

Administrative Expense 2,429.42

Fuel 7,72228

Gas and Electricity 3,258.19

Water and Sewer 2,265.55

Janitor Supplies 2,228.40

Repairs 9,754.65

Ashes and Trucking 526.50

Total Payments $ 47,693.57

Less Refund 2.00

Net Payments $ 47,691.57

Balance to Revenue $ 1,958.43

$ 49,650.00 $ 49,650.00

Agricultural Department, Maintenance

Cr.

Appropriation

$ 500.00

285

Dr.

Books, Etc $ 56.34

Total Payments $ 56.34

Balance to Revenue 443.66

$ 500.00 $ 500.00

Agricultural Department, Salaries
Cr.

Appropriation $ 2,737.50

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 2,379.34

Total Payments $ 2,379.34

Balance to Revenue . .. 358.16

$ 2,737.50 $ 2,737.50

Industrial Tuition

Cr.

Appropriation . $ 800.00

Dr.

City of Boston $ 151.08

City of Malden 4.16

City of Somerville 139.51

Total Payments $ 294.75

Balance to Revenue 505.25

$ 800.00 $ 800.00

Public Library Maintenance

Cr.

Appropriation $ 3,200.00

Transfer from Special Fund 50.00

Dr.

Books, Periodicals and Binding $ 1,993.41

Printing and Stationary 138.85

Fuel, Light, Water and Sewer 472.44

Repairs and Furnishings 513.21

All Other Expenses 108.42

Total Payments

$ 3,226.33

286

Less Refunds 4.81

Net Payments $ 3,221.52

Balance to Revenue 28.48

$ 3,250.00 $ 3,250.00

Public Library, Salaries

Cr.

Appropriation $ 4,230.00

Dr.

Bertha L. Brown, Librarian $ 1,450.00

Grace Abbott, Asst. Librarian 1,050.00

Other Assistants 927.66

W. H. Killam, Janitor 780.00

Total Payments $ 4,207.66

Balance to Revenue 22.34

$ 4,230.00 $ 4,230.00

PARK DEPARTMENT
Maintenance

Appropriation

Pay Roll ....
Telephone . .

Repairs

Supplies

Insurance . . .
All Other . . .

Cr.

Dr.

$ 2,000.00

$ 1,539.39
8.03
120.99
209.93
27.77
93.89

Total Payments $ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00

CEMETERY DEPARTMENT
Laurel Hill Cemetery

Cr.

Appropriation $ 8,900.00

Cemetery Bequest Fund 1,842.28

Geo. F. Buck Fund 48.12

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 8,664.74

Telephone 82.42

Material and Supplies 1,030.20

287

Equipment and Repairs 391.93

Auto Expense 169.63

Insurance 130.97

All Other 315.96

Total Payments $ 10,785.85

Less Refund 4.00

$ 10,785.85

Balance to Revenue 8.55

Net Payments $ 10,790.40

Forest Glen Cemetery

Cr.

Balance from 1927

Appropriation

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 378.53

Material and Supplies 105.62

All Other 25.50

Total Payments $ 509.65

T-^ss Refund 2.00

Net Payments $ 507.65

Balance to 1929 454.50

$ 962.15

Care of Soldiers* Graves

Cr.

Dr.

$ 500.00

WATER DEPARTMENT

Cr.

Balance from 1927

Receipts, 1928

Transfer of Premium

Appropriation
Pay Roll ....

$ 10,790.40

$ 212.15

750.00

$ 962.15

$ 500.00

$ 4,432.93
53,613.46
282.00

288

Dr.

Pay Roll ....... $ 15,459.77

Clerical 936.00

Bonds ...... ... .t. .7 10,000.00

Interest on Bonds — 2,692.50

Telephones 191.22

Insurance 848.70

Office Supplies and Printing 511.87

Fuel 2;039.58

Power 2,121.50

Petometer Survey ; 2,200.00

Supplies ............... . . . 6,332.6 1

Tools and Equipment 3,454.26

Repairs 1,316.61

Auto Equipment and Repairs 1,363.62

All Other ...„ 776.33

Total Payments $ 50,244.57

Balance to 1929 8,083.82

$ 58,328.39 $ 58,328.39

WATER MAINS, EXTENSION

Cr.

Balance from 1927 $ 5,299.22

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 981.60

Contract for Labor 498.10

Pipe 1,501.44

Tools and Supplies 93.60

Freight 22524

All Other .. ..."7T. 53.94

Total Payments ........ V>.. $ 3,353.92

Balance to 1929 1,945.30

$ 5,299.22 $ 5^9922

289

MUNICIPAL LIGHT DEPARTMENT

Cr.

Receipts $270,092.98

Advanced by Treasurer Bal. Dec. 31, 1928 1,340.17

Dr.

Pay Roll $ 71,088.43

Bonds and Notes 14,800.00

Interest on Bonds and Not^s ... 4,245.00

Office and Salesroom Expenses 4,114.58

Current purchased 62,5 52.84

Maintenance and Operation of Lines 34,318.55

Insurance 5,777.31

Coal : 789.45

Rent 410.22

Additions to plant 30,866.82

All Other Payments 42,469.95

$271,433.15 $271,433.15

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
Construction and Equipment

Cr.

Balance from 1927 .; $ 776.79

Dr.

P. G. De Armond & Son $ 12.19

Adden & Parker 270.00

Total Payments .;.... $ 282.19

Balance to 1929 494.60

$ 776.79 $ 776.79

MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE

Cr.

Appropriation $ 500.00

Dr.

Band Hire $ 165.00

Flowers 158.75

Printing
All Other

290

1975

99.30

Total Payments $ ■ 442.80

Balance to Revenue 5770

Total Payments $ ■ 442.80

Balance to Revenue 5770

500.00

Child

Welfare

Work

Cr.

Appropriation

Dr.

300.00

Mrs. Bertha Benjamin

Chas. R. Henderson, M. D. ...

200.00

100.00

300.00

Middlesex County. Aid

to Agriculture

Cr.

Appropriation

Dr.

100.00

Agricultural Extension Service

100.00

Planning Board Expenses

Cr.

Balance from 1927

Dr.

192.03

Mass. Fed. of Planning Boards
Balance to 1929

15.00

177.03

192.03

Appropriation

Victory House Maintenance

Cr.

$ 500.00

291

Dr.

Steward’s Services $ 170.00

Fuel 329.68

Balance to Revenue .32

~ $ 500.00 $ 500.00

SMITH-HUGHES FUND

Balance from 1927

Cr.

$ 197.98

Receipts, 1927

161.78

Pay Roll Agr. School Dept. .

Dr.

$ 197.98

Balance to 1929

161.78

$ 359.76 $ 359.76

MINERAL STREET BRIDGE

Cr.

Appropriation $ 9,000.00

Dr.

A. Bartington Acct. Contract $ 4,250.00

Morse & Dickinson, Engineering Fees 450.00

Total Payments $ 4,700.00

Balance to 1929 4,300.00

$ 9,000.00 $ 9,000.00

WORLD WAR MEMORIAL

Cr.

Appropriation $ 4,069.82

Dr.

Balance to 1929 $ 4,069.82

$ 4,069.82 $ 4,069.82

LAND DAMAGES
Dead Man’s Curve

Cr.

Appropriation $ 200.00

Dr.

George D. Putnam $ 191.98

Balance to Revenue 8.02

$ 200.00 $ 200.00

Appropriation

LAND DAMAGES
Woburn and West Streets

Cr.

$ 50.00

292

Dr.

Balance to 1928 $ 50.00

$ 50.00

PAINTING STAND PIPE

Cr.

Appropriation

Dr.

$ 200.00

F. W. Stevens

$ 200.00

ACCOUNTING

MUNICIPAL LOANS

TEMPORARY LOANS
Anticipation of Revenue

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928

$125,000.00

Notes Issued in 1927

Month By whom purchased

Rate of disc. Amt.

Jan. — Old Colony Corp

3.335

$ 45,000.00

Mar. — Second Nat’l Bank ....

3.67

120,000.00

May — Second Nat’l Bank

3.95

75,000.00

Aug. — Second Nat’l Bank

4.775

100,000.00

Dec. — Second Nat’l Bank

4.57

125,000.00

$465,000.00

$590,000.00

Notes

Paid in 1928

March

$ 75,000.00

September

45,000.00

November

245,000.00

December

100,000.00

$465,000.00

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928

$125,000.00

WATER DEPARTMENT LOANS

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928

Paid in 1928

$ 70,000.00

$ 10,000.00

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928

60,000.00

$ 70,000.00

SEWER DEPARTMENT LOANS

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928

Paid in 1928

$159,000.00

$ 8,000.00

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928

151,000.00

$159,000.00 $159,000.00

293

MUNICIPAL LIGHT DEPARTMENT LOANS

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928 $ 95,900.00

Paid in 1928 $ 14,800.00

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928 81,100.00

$ 95,900.00 $ 95,900.00
MUNICIPAL BUILDING LOANS

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928 $ 20,000.00

Paid in 1928 $ 2,000.00

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928 18,000.00

$ 20,000.00 $ 20,000.00

MUNICIPAL AND LIBRARY BUILDING GROUNDS

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928 $ 2,500.00

Paid in 1928 $ 500.00

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928 2,000.00

$ 2,500.00 $ 2,500.00

BROWN ESTATE LOANS

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928 $ 2,500.00

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928 2,000.00

Paid in 1928 $ 500.00

$ 2,500.00 $ 2,500.00

SCHOOL BUILDING LOANS

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928 $ 4,000.00

Paid in 1928 $ 1,000.00

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928 3,000.00

$ 4,000.00 $ 4,000.00

SCHOOL BUILDING LOANS
Junior High School

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928 $296,000.00

Paid in 1928 $ 34,000.00

Outstanding Dec. 31, 1928 262,000.00

$296,000.00 $296,000.00

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Emergency Loan

Outstanding Jan. 1, 1928 $ 18,000.00

Paid in 1928 $ 18,000.00

$ 18,000.00 $ 18,000.00

294

FUNDED DEBT
Balancing Account

Total Debt, Jan. 1, 1928 $667,900.00

Paid in 1928

Sewer Dept. Loans

Water Dept. Loans

Light Dept. Loans

Municipal Bldg. Loans

Mun. Bldg. Loans and Library Ground Loans

Brown Estate Loans

School Building Loans

School Building Emergency Loan

Total Payments 1928

Total Debt Dec. 31, 1928

$667,900.00

FUNDED DEBT MATURING IN 1928

Appropriation, Tax Levy

Appropriation from Excess and Deficiency Acct.

Transfer from Water Dept

Transfer from Light Dept

Transfer from Sewer Dept

Payment of Loans due in 1928 :

Sewer Dept $ 8,000.00

Water Dept 10,000.00

Municipal Light Dept 14,800.00

Municipal Building 2,000.00

Brown Estate 500.00

Municipal Building and Library 500.00

School Buildings 35,000.00

School Building Emergency Loan 18,000.00

$ 88,800.00

FUNDED DEBT MATURING IN 1929

Sewer Dept. Loans

Water Dept. Loans

Light Dept. Loans

Municipal Building Loans

Municipal and Library Building Loans

Brown Estate Loars

School Building Loans

$ 8,000.00
10,000.00
14,800.00
2,000.00
500.00
500.00

35.000. 00

18.000. 00

$ 88,800.00
579,100.00

$667,900.00

$ 41,000.00

15.000. 00

10.000. 00

14,800.00

8,000.00

$ 88,800.00

$ 8,000.00
10,000.00
13,800.00
2,000.00
500.00
500.00
35,000.00

$ 69,800.00

TOWN DEBT DETAIL OF PAYMENT BY YEARS

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Totals $151,000.00 $60,000.00 $81,100.00 $18,000.00 $265,000.00 $ 2,000.00 $ 2,000.00 $579,100.00

296

BORROWING CAPACITY

Total Valuation Abatement Valuation Net Valuation

1926

$ 13,819,558.00

1927

14,379,299.00

1928

15,040,325.00

Net Valuation for 3 years
Average Valuation for 3 years
3% of average valuation

Total Funded Debt

Less Exempted Loans :

(Outside Debt Limit)

Water Department

Municipal Light Department . .

Sewer Department

School Building

$ 76,320.00 $ 13,743,238.00

79.346.00 14,299,953.00

59.730.00 14,980,595.00

$43,023,786.00

14,341,262.00

430,237.86

$579,100.00

$ 60,000.00

81,100.00
151,000.00
59,000.00

$351,100.00 $228,000.00

Borrowing Capacity, Dec. 31, 1928.. $202,237.86

ACCOUNTING TRUST FUNDS
Balancing Account

Balance Jan. 1, 1928 $194,953.41

Sundry Parties, Cemetery Bequests 2,607.00

Interest and Income 8,943.73

Transferred for Hospital Care $ 1,180.55

Transferred for Cemetery Maint. 1,842.12

Transferred for Cemetery Signs 48.12

Transferred for Scholarships 100.00

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 203,333.19

$206,504.14 $206,504.14

CEMETERY BEQUEST FUND

Cr.

Balance Jan. 1, 1928 $ 43,427.77

Bequests, 1928 2,607.00

Interest and Income, 1928 2,147.23

Dr.

Transferred for care of endowed lots $ 1,842.28

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 46,339.72

$ 48,182.00 $ 48,182.00

297

GEORGE F. BUCK FUND

Cr.

Balance Jan. 1, 1928 $

Interest, 1928

Dr.

Transferred for Cemetery Signs $ 48.12

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 38.88

83.22

3.78

$ 87.00 $ 87.00

READING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Balance Jan. 1, 1928

Cr.

5,09427

Interest

243.39

Transferred for Scholarships . .

Dr.

.... $ 100.00

Balance Dec. 31, 1928

5,237.66

$5,337.66 $ 5,337.66

HOSPITAL FUND

Cr.

Balance Jan 1, 1928 $146,348.15

Interest and Income 6,549.33

Dr.

Transferred for Hospital Care $ 1,180.55

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 151,716.93

$152,897.48 $152,897.48

STATEMENT OF INVESTED FUNDS
Cemetery Bequest Fund

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 $ 46,339.72

Investments Listed at Par :

U. S. Liberty Bonds, 4th 4T4s, 1933-1938 . . $ 12,000.00
N. E. Tel. & Tel. 1st Mort., 5’s Series A

1952 5,000.00

No. Pac. Ry. Ref. & Imp., 6’s Series B 2047 5,000.00

N. Y. C. R. R. Ref. Imp., 5’s Series C 2013 4,000.00

Andover Savings Bank 3,230.64

Cambridge Savings Bank 3,151.88

Essex Savings Bank, Lawrence 3,230.64

Mech. Savings Bank, Reading 10,726.56

$ 46,339.72 $ 46,339.72

298

READING HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 $ 5,237.66

Investments :

Andover Savings Bank $ 1,000.00

Charlestown Five Cent Savings Bank 1,000.00

Essex Savings Bank, Lawrence 1,000.00

First Nat’l Bank, Reading, Sav. Dept 2,237.66

$ 5,237.66 $ 5,237.66

GEORGE F. BUCK FUND

Balance Dec. 31, 1928 $ 38.88

Investment :

Mechanics Savings Bank $ 38.88

$ 38.88 $ 38.88

HOSPITAL FUND

Balance Dec. 31. 1928 $151,716.93

Investments, Securities listed at Par or Less :

$5,000 Am. Tel. — Tel. Col. Tr. 5’s, 1946 . . $ 5.000.00
$5,000 Bos. & Albany R. R. Imp. of 1908,

4’s, 1933 4,798.00

$5,000 Boston Elevated, 5’s, 1937 5,000.00

$5,000 Cent. Hudson Gas and Elec. 5’s, 1957 5,000.00

$5,000 Chicago B. & Q. R. R. Co., 111., Div.

“M” 3^’s, 1949 4,347.50

$2,000 Conn. Lt. & Power Co., 1st Ref. S.

F. 7’s, 1951 2,000.00

$5,000 Conn. Lt. & Power Co., 1st Ref. S.

F. 4j4’s. 1956 4,787.50

$5,000 Consumers’ PowTer Co., 5’s, 1936 . . . 5,000.00

$5,000 Consolidated Gas of Baltimore Gen.

M. 4y2’s, 1954 4,922.50

$5,000 111. Cent. R. R. Co., Tr. 4’s, 1952 . . 4,437.50

$5,000 111. Cent. R. R. Co., St. Louis Div.

1st. M 3’s, 1951 3,800.00

$5,000 Kansas City Povrer & Lt. 4j4’s, 1957 5,000.00

299

$5,000 Kings Co. Elec. Lt. & Power 5’s, 1937 5,000.00

$5,000 N. Y. Cent. & H. R. R. Deb. 4’s, 1934 4,737.50

$5,000 N. Y. Tel. Co. 1st Gen. M. 4^’s, 1939 4,950.00

$5,000 Old Colony R. R. 1st 5’s, 1945 .... 5,000.00

$5,000 Pacific Gas & Elec. 4*4’s, 1957 .... 5,000.00

$5,000 St. Paul, Minn. & Man. Ry. Cons.

4’s 1933 4,831.25

$13,000 U. S. Liberty Bonds 4th 4j4’s,

1933-1938 13,000.00

$2,000 Wisconsis Power & Light 5’s, 1956 2,000.00

American Mfg. Co. Common 72 Shares . . 7,200.00

Home Bleachery & Dye Works, Pfd. 2
Shares 11.00

Sharp Mfg. Co. Pfd. 55 Shares 2,035.00

Sharp Mfg. Co. Com. 20 Shares 220.00

Andover Savings Bank 5,384.44

Charlestown Five Cent Savings Bank . . . 5,384.45

Essex Savings Bank, Lawrence 5,384.44

Mechanics Savings Bank, Reading 13,707.08

First Nat’l Bank, Reading, Savings Dept. 13,778.77

$151,716.93 $151,716.93

I hereby certify that, in accordance with the provisions of Section
53, Chapter 41, of the General Laws, I have audited the accounts of
the Commissioners of Trust Funds, have examined the securities and
verified bank balances and report the foregoing to be a true and
accurate statement, December 31, 1928.

LEON G. BENT, Town Accountant.

BALANCE SHEET DEC. 31, 1928

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GRACE V. VIALL. COLLECTOR

Dr.

Amount uncollected, Dec. 31, 1927, account 1925 Tax $ 521.10

“ uncollected, Dec. 31, 1927, account 1926 Tax 170.62

“ Interest collected, account 1926 Tax 6.34

“ uncollected, Dec. 31, 1927, account 1927 Tax 155,951.51

“ Interest collected, account 1927 Tax 5,517.57

“ Poll Tax Warrant, account 1927 2.00

“ uncollected, Dec. 31, 1927, account 1927 Sewer . . 1,071.73

“ Interest collected, account 1927 Sewer 30.70

“ Poll Tax Warrants, 1928 5,654.00

“ General Tax Warrant, Sept. 1928 503,752.28

“ Moth Tax, Sept. 1928 967.00

“ Sidewalk Assessment, Sept. 1928 177.71

“ Sewer Commitment for 1928 2,580.57

“ General Tax Warrant, Dec. 1928 107.20

“ Interest collected, account 1928 Tax 305.77

“ Interest collected, account 1928 Sewer .54

“ uncollected Sewer rentals, Dec. 31, 1927 119.40

“ Sewer Rentals, Jan 1, 1928 4,110.60

“ Sewer Rentals, July 1, 1928 4,378.20

“ Interest collected, account Sewer Rentals 12.02

“ Advanced payments on apportioned Sewer and

interest 235.14

“ Sewer Betterment Sept. 7, 1928 510.58

“ Costs and charges 644.19

“ Received account redemption property 746.45

$687,573.22

303

IN ACCOUNT WITH TOWN OF READING

Cr.

Amount Paid Treasurer account 1925 Tax $ 171.00

“ abated account 1925 Tax 350.10

“ paid Treasurer account 1926 Tax 50.48

“ abated account 1926 Tax 126.48

“ paid Treasurer account 1927 Tax and Interest 156,390.34

“ abated account 1927 Tax 899.87

“ transferred to tax title account 1927 Tax ■ 3,981.30

“ unpaid account 1927 Tax 199.57

“ paid Treasurer account 1927 Sewer ■ 1,081.57

“ transferred to tax title account 1927 Sewer 20.86

“ paid Treasurer account 1928 Tax and Interest 349,415.38

“ abated account 1928 Tax .• 1,924.9 2

“ transferred to tax title account 1928 Tax 3,573.15

“ unpaid account 1928 Tax 156,050.51

“ paid Treasurer account 1928 Sewer 1,319.94

“ transferred to tax title account 1928 Sewer 19.89

“ unpaid account 1928 Sewer 1,241.28

“ paid Treasurer account 1927 Sewer Rentals and

Interest 109.40

“ transferred to tax title account 1927 Sewer Rentals 6.00

“ unpaid account 1927 Sewer Rentals 8.40

“ paid Treasurer account 1928 Sewer Rentals and

Interest 8,173.92

“ abated account 1928 Sewer Rentals 11.70

“ transferred to tax title account 1928 Sewer Rentals 11.70

“ unpaid account 1928 Sewer Rentals 299.10

“ paid Treasurer account advanced payments on

Sewer and Interest 235.14

“ transferred to deferred payments Sewer Betterment 455.18

“ abated account Sewer Betterment 55.40

“ paid Treasurer account costs and charges 577.19

“ paid Constable account costs and charges 67.00

“ Treasurer account redemption property 746.45

$687,573.22

GRACE V. VIALL, Collector of Taxes.

Reading, Mass., Dec. 31, 1928

Approved : Leon G. Bent, Town Accountant.

304

REPORT OF TREASURER

For the Year Ended December 31, 1928

The transactions in the General Cash Account, in summary form,
were as follows :

Balance January 1, 1928 $ 22,849.59

Receipts :

Tax Collector 518,270.81

Municipal Light Department 270,092.98

Water Department 53,613.46

Sewer Department 1,822.66

School Department 11,381.59

Cemetery Department 8,707.02

Tree Warden and Moth Department 1,974.00

Other Department Receipts 11,761.51

Interest on Deposits 1,672.93

Temporary Loans, Anticipation of Revenue 465,000.00

Accrued Interest 158.68

Trust Funds, Income 6,168.50

Trust Funds, Transfers 5,513.23

Sales of Property, Taxes, Interest and Costs 10,576.14

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Taxes . . 67,110.47

Miscellaneous Receipts 5,771.69

Total Receipts $1,439,595.67

Disbursements :

Temporary Loans 465,000.00

Bonds and Notes, Funded Debt 88,800.00

Interest on Funded Debt 27,164.41

Discount on Notes 7,256.01

State Taxes and Assessments 34,499.64

County Tax 21,112.14

Other Disbursements 774,183.48

Total Disbursements $ 1,418,015.68

Balance December 31, 1928 $ 44,429.58

FUNDED DEBT

Outstanding January 1, 1928 $667,900.00

Bonds and Notes Paid in 1928 $ 88,800.00

Outstanding December 31, 1928 579,100.00

$667,900.00

305

NOTES ISSUED IN ANTICIPATION OF REVENUE

Outstanding January 1, 1928
Notes Issued in 1928

Notes Paid in 1928

Outstanding December 31, 1928

$125,000.00

465.000. 00

$590,000.00

$465,000.00

125.000. 00

$590,000.00

A more detailed statement of receipts and disbursements, and
statements of the Trust Funds will be found in the report of the Town
Accountant.

PRESTON F. NICHOLS, Treasurer.

REPORT OF THE PLANNING BOARD

To the Honorable, Board of Selectmen, Town of Reading, Mass.

Gentlemen :

The Planning Board submits the following report for the year 1928.

During the year Mr. Harry C. Barr resigned from the Board; Mr.
Leland W. Kingman was appointed by the Board of Selectmen to fill the
vacancy. Near the end of the year Mr. W. Franklin Burnham resigned, his
place remaining unfilled.

Several meetings were held during the year, by the Board separately
and in joint meeting with the Citizens ’ Committee appointed at the annual
Town meeting, to consider suggested changes in the Zoning Laws; and one
public hearing was held on the subject before both bodies. The results
of these meetings, in the form of recommendations to the Town, will be pre-
sented to the voters at the next annual Town meeting.

In 1927 the Board spent much time and effort upon a scheme for
the improvement of the Square and Common and presented recommendations
to the annual Town meeting. From the attitude of the voters it was evi-
dent that the Town was not receptive to these recommendations and the sub-
ject has not been considered further. It is a question of increasing im-
portance to the Town which should be seriously discussed and some course
of constructive action determined.

In the report of 1927 the Board made recommendations concerning
the appointment of a Park Commission; the acquisition or growth of a
Town forest; the purchase of Birch Meadow and the utilization of a part
of it as a supervised Town dump ; the control of land development ; the con-
struction of sidewalks; the need of a new railroad station; and the solution
of grade crossing evils. No action upon these matters has been taken by
the Town.

306

Conditions near the railroad station and at the Green Street crossing
have become notably worse during the past year. Due to the increase in
the length of some of the local trains to Boston, passengers are caused to
board the trains between the end of the regular platform and the head of
the train which extends in some cases two or three car lengths beyond the
crossing. It appears to the Planning Board that this is a dangerous con-
dition which may result in a serious accident. The Board recommends that
the proper Town officials confer with the Railroad Company in an endeavor
to remedy the condition.

The problems involved in all these subjects are closely related to the
interests of every citizen of the Town and if not considered in time and
with intelligence, will, in some cases at least, become the source of needles®
expense in the future.

W. FRANKLIN BURNHAM, Chairman.
HARRIETTS P. LEUCHTMAN, Secretary.
FREDERICK E. BOYES,

LELAND W. KINGMAN,

WINTHROP D. PARKER,

Planning Board of the Town of Reading.

REPORT OF SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURERS

To the Honorable, Board of Selectmen, Town of Reading,

Gentlemen :

The following is my report of the work completed by the Department
of Weights and Measures for the year 1928.

All scales, weights, and measures used for buying and selling have
been tested and either adjusted and sealed or condemned. The gasoline
pumps have also been tested and sealed if correct or condemned if found
to be wrong.

Several inspections of package goods and varied commodities as
put up for sale to the public were re-weighed to see if the proper amount
was being given. Pedlers’ licenses, junk and ice scales were also inspected
at different times after sealing to see if they were in good condition.

Following is a detailed account of the work completed by this de-
partment for the year 1928.

Yours respectfully,

CARL M. SMITH,

Sealer.

307

Work Performed from December 1, 1927, to November 30, 1928, inclusive
1. Scales

Adjusted

Sealed

Condemned

Platform, over 5000 lbs.

Platform, 1)00 to 5000 lbs.

Counter, under 100 lbs.

Spring, under 100 lbs.

Computing, 100 to 5000 lbs.

Personal weighing

Prescription

2. Weights

Avoirdupois

178

Apothecary

Metric

3. Volumetric Measures

Liquid Measures

4. Automatic Liquid Measuring

Devices

Gasoline Pumps

Measures, (stops on pumps)

260

—

135

673

Trial Weighings and Measurements of Commodities Sold or Put up For Sale

Total

Number

Incorrect

Tested

Correct

Under

Over

Commodity

Bread

Butter

Coal (in paper bags)

Dry Commodities

Flour

Fruits & Vegetables

Ice

Meats & Provisions

—

208

147

Summary of Inspections

Pedlers* licenses, 4.

Labels on bread, 8.

Clinical thermometers, 22.

Milk Jars, 24.

Ice-scales, 6.

Junk-scales, 3.

Betests of gasoline devices after sealing, 10.

308

REPORT OF MILK INSPECTOR

To the Honorable, Board of Health, Town of Reading.

Gentlemen :

The inspection of the local milk supply and the conditions under
which it has been produced has varied very little from that of previous
years, that is, it has consisted of seeing that the milk has been kept within
the legal standard set by the state and in seeing that the conditions under
which it has been produced are sanitary. Fortunately this year the milk
supply was not subject to any contagious disease contamination.

I can report at this time that the quality of the local milk supply is
well within the legal standards of the state and that the conditions under
Which it is being produced are very satisfactory.

Yours respectfully,

CARL M. SMITH,

Inspector.

,»

REPORT OF INSPECTOR OF ANIMALS

Town of Reading, February 28, 1929.
To the Honorable, Board of Selectmen:

At this time I wish to submit my report as Inspector of Animals for
the yfear ending January 1, 1929.

The number of cattle inspected 252.

: The number of sheep inspected 2.

The number of goats inspected 2.

The number of swine inspected 100.

The premises where the above live stock was kept were inspected
also, and found satisfactory in almost every instance. Where unsatisfactory-
conditions were found, suggestions were made for improvement and later
inspection proved the premises in better condition.

Our supply of local milk should compare favorably with that of any
community. We can boast of one herd which is tubercular-proof, having
passed two tests with no disease.

Rabies has been prevalent during the year and several persons have
been obliged to take the anti-rabic treatment as a preventative measure
after being bitten by dogs.

At this time, may I urge every possible care on the part of persons-
handling strange dogs, and the innoculation of dpgs whenever possible.
Little prevention will save a lot of suffering for persons and animals.

CALVERT H. PLAYDON,

Inspector of Animals.

INDEX

Page

Accountant 249

Births Registered 49

Board of Appeal 77

Board of Assessors 78

Board of Health 76

Board of Public Works 89

Highwav Department 115

Park Department 128

Playground 130

Sewer Department 120

Water Department 92

Cemetery Trustees 80

Forest Glen Cemetery Report 82

Laurel Hill Cemetery Report 81

Chief of Fire Department 67

Chief of Police 66

Collector of Taxes 302

Custodian of Veterans’ Graves 82

Deaths Registered 59

Dogs Licensed 48

Election, State and National 41

Electric Light Commissioners 197

Fire Alarm 70

Forest Warden 72

Inspector of Animals 308

Inspector of Buildings 75

Inspector of Milk 308

Inspector of Plumbing 65

Inspector of Wires 75

Licenses, Hunting and Fishing 47

List of Jurors 8

Marriages Registered 54

Notice to Parents, Housewives, Physicians and Midwives 47

Planning Board t 305

Presidential Primary * 28

Public Library 83

Public Welfare 63

School Committee 133

Sealer of Weights and Measures 306

Selectmen 63

State Primary 36

Superintendent of Fire Alarm 69

Town Clerk 11

Town Counsel 73

Town Meetings 11

Town Officers 3

Town of Reading, Statistics 8

Treasurer 304

Tree Warden 73

Visitor 64

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